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vulgarian, a. and n.|vʌlˈgɛərɪən|
[f. prec. + -ian.]
A. adj. = vulgar a. (in later use in sense 13).
c1650Denham To Sir J. Mennis i, All on a weeping Monday, With a fat vulgarian sloven, Little Admiral John To Boulogne is gone. 1833Fraser's Mag. VIII. 625 Compare this with the vulgarian twaddle of the old Blackingman. 1876World V. No. 114. 3 A position in the scale of popular amusements precisely analogous to the vulgarian paradise known as the music-hall.
B. n. A vulgar person; freq., a well-to-do or rich person of vulgar manners.
1804M. Edgeworth Ennui vi, The man is married, to some vulgarian, of course. 1821L. Hunt Indicator No. 66 (1822) II. 106 You are thought little better than a vulgarian. 1853Lytton My Novel v. ix, Did you not marry a low creature—a vulgarian—a tradesman's daughter? 1888Athenæum 21 July 93/1 One of the most repulsive vulgarians we have ever met with out of real life.
Hence vulˈgarianism.
1920D. H. Lawrence Lost Girl x. 243 She saw his modern vulgarianism, and decadence. 1963New Society 21 Nov. 22/1 The rising generations of eggheads is notorious for its vulgarianism, admiring Brigitte, canonizing Marilyn. |