nonbarbaric
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "But the constitutional, nonbarbaric, patient approaches to drug abuse clearly have not worked to curb either, addiction or traffic."
- "This provides us with an appropriate and usable framework within which not only can we analyze economic theory and policy, but determine whether they are barbaric or nonbarbaric in their social and human impact."
- "This is one of the fullest, most complex (and virtually untranslatable into nonbarbaric English) statements about Andenken."
- "The word that Roman authors generally used for the Gaulish and other European polities was civitas, which is generally translated as “state” when applied to nonbarbaric subjects but came to be conventionally translated as “tribe” when it referred to the Gauls or Germans (see Rives 1999, 153)."
- "LWP sets forth a hierarchy of moderation that is mapped on a hierarchy of religions; this mapping reiterates the common formulation of barbarians as lacking reason and control, and thus lacking the self-discipline and self-mastery intrinsic to nonbarbaric peoples."
- "Insofar as he teaches culture and tries to model himself on the noble classical prototype, he cares about what is not in common: the nonbarbaric qualities that set the Greeks and Romans apart and above all others."