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单词 vulgarity
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vulgarityn.

Brit. /vʌlˈɡarɪti/, U.S. /vəlˈɡɛrədi/
Etymology: < Latin (post-classical) vulgāritas the mass or multitude ( < vulgāris vulgar adj.), or < vulgar adj. + -ity suffix. Compare French vulgarité, Italian volgarità, Spanish vulgaridad, Portuguese -idade.
1.
a. The commonalty; the common people. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun]
folkc888
peoplea1325
frapec1330
commona1350
common peoplea1382
commonsa1382
commontya1387
communityc1400
meiniec1400
commonaltya1425
commonsa1500
vulgarsa1513
many1526
meinie1532
multitude1535
the many-headed beast (also monster)1537
number1542
ignobility1546
commonitya1550
popular1554
populace1572
popularya1578
vulgarity?1577
populacya1583
rout1589
the vulgar1590
plebs1591
mobile vulgusc1599
popularity1599
ignoble1603
the million1604
plebe1612
plebeity1614
the common filea1616
the herda1616
civils1644
commonality1649
democracy1656
menu1658
mobile1676
crowd1683
vulgusa1687
mob1691
Pimlico parliament?1774
citizenry1795
polloi1803
demos1831
many-headed1836
hoi polloi1837
the masses1837
citizenhood1843
John Q.1922
wimble-wamble1937
?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 49 The eternall God hath appoynted and diuided his Church militant..into foure partes. First, into Principalitie. Seconde, into Nobilitie. Thirde, into Pastoralitie. Fourthly, into Vulgaritie.
1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale viii. 330 So these condemnd, thence garded weare to dye, lothd, skornd, revild, cursd of th' vulgaritie.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 421 A proud Nobility, a familiar and manly Gentry, and a ruvidous vulgarity.
1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα Pref. 3 The meere vulgarity (like Swine) are prone to cry out more, for a little bite by the eare, than for all the sordidnesse of sin.
b. The ordinary sort or run (of a class, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > quality of being commonplace or undistinguished > the ordinary sort of anything
vulgarity1646
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. vii. 25 'Tis true by the vulgarity of Philosophers there are many points beleeved without probation. View more context for this quotation
1681 P. Rycaut tr. B. Gracián y Morales Critick 190 His Humour formed of a disagreeing mould and nature to the vulgarity of the World.
c. Used as a mock-title to designate one of the common people. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > one of the common people
Jackc1390
fellowa1400
commonerc1400
populara1525
plebeianc1550
ungentle1562
Tom Tiler1582
roturier1586
vulgarity1646
little man1707
pleb1795
man of the people1799
the man in the street1831
snob1831
man1860
oickman1925
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. iii. 11 For true it is, (and I hope shall not offend their vulgarities) if I say they are daily mocked into errour. View more context for this quotation
2. General use; common diffusion. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > generality or prevalence
coursec1325
publicness1605
rifeness1608
vulgaritya1613
vulgarnessa1613
prepotency1623
prevalency1648
prevalency1651
prevalence1682
prevailance1795
prevalent1867
a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) iv. 27 It may well seeme that the Roman tongue became not the vulgar language in any of these parts of the Empire, which yet are specially instanced, for the large vulgarity of it.
1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 174 The Latin or Primitive Romane tongue,..though living yet in the Schools,..may be said to be defunct in point of vulgarity any time these 1000 years pass'd.
3. The quality of being usual, ordinary, or commonplace; an instance of this. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > quality of being commonplace or undistinguished
ordinarinessa1617
vulgarity1646
greyness1663
commonness1779
commonplaceness1808
commonplace1842
commonplaceism1851
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > usualness > commonplaceness
vulgarity1646
vulgeralitya1681
commonplaceness1808
everydayness1840
prosaicness1852
prosaism1855
hackneydom1867
prosaicalness1876
quotidianism1913
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. iii. 12 Although their condition and fortunes may place them many Spheres above the multitude, yet are they still within the line of vulgarity . View more context for this quotation
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Vulgarity, the common manner or fashion of the vulgar people.
1666 Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 228 In these Vulgarities we may..trace out the cause and nature of Light, as in Jewels of greatest value.
1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 24 in Athenæ Britannicæ III He..was answer'd that he never differ'd any thing to the Morrow, or some such thing to the same learned purpose of Dissenting Sermons, which are often full of such Unscholar-like Vulgarities.
4. The quality of being vulgar, unrefined, or coarse; an instance of this.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > vulgarity
community1600
vulgarness1642
vulgar1655
vulgarism1749
vulgaritya1774
tigerism1836
plebeianness1840
shopkeeperism1843
vulgarianism1920
corniness1932
kitschiness1971
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour
villainyc1340
churlhood1382
rudenessc1405
boistousness1526
uplandishness1530
rusticity1531
coarseness1541
loutishnessa1556
grossness1563
boorishness1570
rusticality1572
clownishness1576
bouerie1577
roughness1581
clownery1589
swinishness1591
peasantryc1592
inurbanity1598
community1600
rusticalnessa1603
clownagea1637
wildness1639
vulgarness1642
unpolishedness1652
brutism1687
mismanners1697
unpoliteness1700
brutality1709
mechanicism1710
indelicacy1712
untameness1727
vulgarism1749
vulgaritya1774
shag1785
piggishness1796
cubbishness1828
sylvanity1832
rusticness1838
plebeianness1840
swainishness1854
baboonery1857
yahooism1862
slanginess1865
bucolicism1879
vulgarianism1920
outbackery1961
yobbishness1969
ockerism1974
blokeishness1989
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1834) II. 681 It seems too narrow a vulgarity in those who value themselves upon being raised above the vulgar, to despise every old woman..because she does not understand Latin, and has no interest in the county.
1782 V. Knox Ess. (1819) I. xlvii. 257 Verses..now admired for that artless simplicity, which once obtained the name of coarseness and vulgarity.
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 55 The auditor..compares incipient grandeur with final vulgarity.
1833 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 20 Jan. The ignorant zealotry and sordid vulgarity of the leaders of the day!
1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 278 We may conclude that vulgarity consists in a deadness of the heart and body, resulting from prolonged, and especially from inherited conditions of ‘degeneracy’.
1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 260 Our imagination of him has dwelt securely in ideal remoteness from the vulgarities of life.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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