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[ad. F. popularité (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.) populace, popular bearing, popularity, ad. L. populāritās fellow-citizenship, popular bearing, in late L. population, f. populāris popular: see -ity.]
†1. Popular or democratic government. Obs.
1548W. Thomas in Strype Eccl. Mem. II. App. S. 65 The Swizzers, that destroyed their gentlemen in a day and that now glory most in their popularity. 1632C. Downing St. Eccles. Kingd. (1634) 24 An Aristocracie cannot be immediately dissolved, either into a tyranny or a tumultuous popularity. 1701Swift Contests Nobles & Com. Athens & Rome v, In a very few years we have made mighty leaps from prerogative heighths into the depths of popularity.
†2. The principle of popular or democratic government; democracy. Obs.
1574Whitgift Def. Aunsw. To Rdr. a iv, Contempt of magistrates, popularitie, Anabaptistrie and sundrie other pernicious and pestilent errors. a1648Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1683) 166 He taught, All goods should be Common; and diuers other Articles tending to Popularity. 1689D. Granville Lett. (Surtees, No. 37) 71 The contagion of the age, the spirit of popularity and republicanisme.
†3.
a. The action or practice of courting, or trying to win, popular favour. Obs.
1597–8Bacon Ess., Followers & Friends (Arb.) 34 So it be without too much pompe or popularitie. 1690Norris Beatitudes (1692) 240 A very laudable affectation of Popularity,..to engage men's affections to our Persons. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1703) 71 Popularity is a courting the favour of the people by undue practices. a1715Burnet Own Time an. 1664 (1823) I. 355 He said, there was such a remissness, and so much popularity appeared upon all occasions, that..it would be impossible to preserve the church.
†b. pl. Popular arts or practices. Obs. rare—1.
1597Bacon Coulers Good & Evill Ess. (Arb.) 138 It may be represented also by coulers, popularities and circumstances, which are of such force, as they sway the ordinarie iudgement.
4. The fact or condition of being approved, beloved, or admired by the people, or by many people; favour or acceptance with the people.
1601Holland Pliny II. 526 At the next election of Magistrates, his popularitie gained him a Consulship. 1673Essex Papers (Camden) I. 77 They have no man of eminent popularitie to head them. 1780Bentham Princ. Legisl. xvii. §22 By popularity is meant the property of being acceptable or rather not unacceptable to the bulk of the people. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 540 Numerous editions of these poems confirm their popularity. 1882A. W. Ward Dickens i. 17 He had found the way short from obscurity to the dazzling light of popularity.
†5. Vulgarity in speech. rare—1.
1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. ii. i, This gallant, labouring to avoid popularity, falls into a habit of affectation, ten thousand times hatefuller than the former.
†6. = populace. Obs.
1632C. Downing St. Eccles. Kingd. (1634) 18 That was approved and received by many of the popularity for a happie equality. 1715M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. Pref. 65 To curry Favour with the vulgar Popularity. 1771Luckombe Hist. Print. 119 [He] incensed the popularity of London, as in a common cause.
†7. = populousness. Obs. rare.
1654E. Johnson Wonder wrkg. Provid. (1867) 212 The last Church that compleated the number of 30. was gathered at Boston, by reason of the popularity thereof. 1720Barham Barrenness Enq. i, Of the antediluvian world, and its popularity before the flood.
8. Comb., as popularity-hunting, popularity-monger; popularity contest, a competition in which the popularity of the contenders is judged; freq. transf. and in allusive uses with reference (chiefly in negative contexts) to one's supposed popularity; popularity poll [poll n.1 7 d], a poll taken from a section of a population in order to assess the popularity of a particular person or proposition in terms of the population as a whole; popularity rating, an assessment of popularity based on the findings of a popularity poll.
1941B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? i. 15 I'm not running a popularity contest; I'm running a business office. 1952Manch. Guardian Weekly 24 Apr. 8/4 This is a ‘popularity contest’ only; the results are not binding on the delegates of either party. 1959R. Condon Manchurian Candidate (1960) xvii. 211 Life isn't a popularity contest... I didn't ask them to like me. 1964E. Ambler Kind of Anger i. 16 You wouldn't win a popularity contest where he's concerned, and..he can be a vindictive old bastard. 1973‘E. McBain’ Hail to Chief i. 15 The decisions I make ain't always popular, but..I'm not running no popularity contest. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 1 May 4/5 Unless he can really blast a hole through this interest screen in the Democratic Party by winning handsomely in the primaries, not just in the popularity contests but in the delegate races as well, then I suspect he could be squeezed out at the convention.
1875J. Grant One of the 600 i, The sly broad-brims and popularity-hunters of the Peace Society.
1843Thackeray Irish Sk.-bk. v, A courtly popularity-hunting air. 1946W. S. Churchill Victory 162 Sir, I trust there will be no popularity-hunting at the public expense.
1846Mrs. Gore Eng. Char. (1852) 10 One of the most accredited popularity-mongers of society.
1938‘E. Queen’ Four of Hearts ix. 127 Three outstanding stars (selected..on the basis of the latest popularity poll conducted by Paula Paris for the newspaper syndicate). 1958Punch 1 Jan. 50/1 Continuing to top the popularity poll for the masses was Princess Margaret. 1962Sunday Times (Colour Suppl.) 10 June 3 A fact recognised in this year's Melody Maker popularity poll. 1972Country Life 10 Feb. 347/3 Let us pray that they [sc. poodles] will never find themselves leading the popularity poll. 1979J. Wainwright Duty Elsewhere lxiii. 176 Calling an assistant chief constable a flaming liar doesn't win popularity polls.
a1974R. Crossman Diaries (1977) III. 327 The Times has a poll showing a 20 per cent lead for the Tories, with a new popularity rating specially designed so that Ted Heath can be ahead of Harold Wilson. 1974Listener 17 Jan. 70/1 The Japanese Prime Minister..enjoys an even lower popularity-rating..than President Nixon. |