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unˈvulgar, a.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
†1. Uncommon, unusual; above the common, refined, rare. Obs.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. 40 O! furnish me with an un-vulgar stile. 1615J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. i. xv. 192 In his behauiour hee would seeme French, Italian, Spanish, or any thing, so he may seeme vnvulgar. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. v. 199 There were no living..with us, unlesse something new and unvulgar be in our houses. 1713Berkeley Hylas & Phil. Pref., When they have taken a circuit through so many refined and unvulgar notions. 1736Welsted Wks. (1787) 427 Philosophers..too unvulgar to relish any Divinity that is not Pagan.
2. Free from vulgarity.
1819L. Hunt Indicator No. 3 (1822) I. 19 The whole story is..unvulgar and..sweetly serious. 1839J. H. Frere Aristoph. Knights p. iv, That admirable and most unvulgar exhibition of vulgar life, the Pickwick Papers. |