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vernacularity|vəˌnækjʊˈlærɪtɪ|
[-ity.]
1. The fact of belonging or adhering to the vernacular or native language.
[1842Sir W. Hamilton in Reid's Wks. I. 100/2 note, As the expressions are scientific, it is perhaps no loss that their technical precision is guarded by their non-vernacularity.] 1847De Quincey in Tait's Mag. XIV. 579 The merit, which justly you ascribe to Swift, is vernacularity; he never forgets his mother-tongue in exotic forms. 1904‘O. Henry’ in N.Y. World Mag. 25 Dec. 2/6 Remsen touched his cap..and took refuge in vernacularity. 1943Entwistle & Gillet Lit. of Eng. iv. 41 He [sc. John Lyly] cultivated..unexpected vernacularity amid refined ‘conceits’.
2. A vernacularism.
1867Carlyle E. Irving in Remin. (1881) I. 335 Rustic Annandale begins it, with its homely honesties, rough vernacularities, safe, innocently kind. |