Semibarbaric

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Sem`i`bar`bar´ic

a. 1. Half barbarous or uncivilized; as, semibarbaric display.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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Half the people are semibarbaric and the other half dangerously narrow and presbyterian."

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Half the people are semibarbaric and the other half dangerously narrow and presbyterian." Her workplace was not always up to scratch either; she was the victim of dirty tricks from a female colleague and the staff canteen served fish with gravy.

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In rhetoric that closely resembles Wordsworth's in the 1800 Preface--"untrained" and "semibarbaric" are to "low and rustic," as "direct and forceful" are to plain and emphatic--the Lomax introduction reminds us of the importance of the voice as an instrument in the appeal of the folksong aesthetic.

Re-sounding folk voice, remaking the ballad: Alan Lomax, Margaret Walker, and the New Criticism