单词 | vernacularity |
释义 | vernacularityn. 1. The fact of belonging or adhering to the vernacular or native language. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > native language > use of vernacularity1847 vernacularism1850 the mind > language > a language > [noun] > native language > belonging or not belonging to the native language vernacularity1847 1842 Sir 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.] 1847 T. De Quincey Schlosser's Lit. Hist. in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 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. 1943 Entwistle & Gillet Lit. of Eng. iv. 41 He [sc. John Lyly] cultivated..unexpected vernacularity amid refined ‘conceits’. 2. A vernacularism. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > native language > vernacular word or expression vulgar1532 vulgarism1644 vernacularism1846 vernacularity1867 1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) I. 335 Rustic Annandale begins it, with its homely honesties, rough vernacularities, safe, innocently kind. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1847 |
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