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Barbarism

/bˈɑrbəˌrɪzəm/
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(noun) A barbaric act.

Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice.
Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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The whole region fell into ____ after the fall of the central power.

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