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vulgarism|ˈvʌlgərɪz(ə)m|
[f. vulgar a. + -ism. Cf. Sp. and Pg. vulgarismo, It. volgarismo.]
†1. A common or ordinary expression. Obs.—1
1644Bulwer Chirol. 13 An ineffable latitude of significations: whose vulgarismes, varied through such multiplicity of senses, are of that note and consequence, that [etc.].
2. A vulgar phrase or expression; a colloquialism of a low or unrefined character.
1746H. Walpole Let. to Mann 28 Mar., The Countess..has entertained the town with an excellent vulgarism. 1758L. Temple Sketches (ed. 2) 43 The Sentiments..cannot be exprest with too much Plainness and Simplicity; provided all Vulgarisms are as much as possible avoided. 1798Brit. Critic XI. 136 It took him, is a grose vulgarism. 1822M. W. Shelley in Dowden Shelley (1887) II. 381 We hear that she leads him and his mother (to use a vulgarism) a devil of a life. 1874Green Short Hist. viii. (1882) 449 The slipshod vulgarisms of the shopkeeper of to-day.
b. A popular corruption of a name. rare—1.
1852C. M. Yonge Cameos (1877) I. xix. 136 This romantic story,..celebrates the Saracen lady by the extraordinary title of Susy Pye, perhaps a vulgarism of her original Eastern name.
3. The quality or character of being vulgar; vulgarity.
1749Chesterfield Lett. to Son 27 Sept., Vulgarism in language is the..distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. 1771Sir J. Reynolds Disc. iv. (1876) 345 Familiar and interesting to all Europe without being degraded by the vulgarism of ordinary life in any country. 1788A. Hughes Henry & Isabella I. 168 They were generally written in a style of pretence and sometimes vulgarism. 1819Keats Lines to Fanny 24 Shall I gulp wine? No, that is vulgarism. 1831Examiner 436/2 We are..struck by the absence of vulgarism in the performance.
b. An instance of vulgarity; a vulgar action, practice, habit, etc.
1785G. A. Bellamy Apology (ed. 3) IV. 158 The complaints of having nothing to do, is such a vulgarism, that I wonder any persons..can degrade themselves by the acknowledgement. 1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park xlvi, Visions of good and ill breeding, of old vulgarisms and new gentilities were before her. 1834Tait's Mag. I. 54/1 Since the scent of that flower has been voted a vulgarism! |