One relates to a vulgarism of language, which I grieve to say is sometimes heard even from female lips.
Sir, I repudiate the loathsome vulgarism as an insult to the first miracle wrought by the Founder of our religion!
Language The Vulgarism of Asia Minor The development of the language during this period turned on the distinction between the classical Latin of cultivated society and the vulgar language of common life.
The Asiatic vulgarism of Hortensius thus dislodged classicism from the Roman platform and partly also from literature.
Roman Vulgarism Hortensius Reaction The Rhodian School Yet this new style found its way also into the Latin world.
A card with a photograph portrait upon it, though to a certain extent fashionable, is a vulgarism that can never obtain general favor.
Punning is a vulgarism that should be scrupulously avoided.
He had so great a horror of a vulgarism that, like Canning, he would have made a periphrasis of a couple of lines to avoid using the word "cat.
It was Witherspoon who coined the word /Americanism/--and at once the English guardians of the sacred vessels began employing it as a general synonym forvulgarism and barbarism.
Formerly a provincialism but now a vulgarism for “wink.
A vulgarism for “with the pawnbroker,” or “out of sight.
A vulgarism sometimes used for “perplex” or “disconcert.
A vulgarism for “to surpass or be immeasurably superior to.
The contraction ain’t for isn’t is a vulgarism which ought not to need criticism.
A vulgarism of speech, sometimes defended on the ground that the phrase is elliptical, the omitted word or phrase being computation, showing, or feature of the case.
When used as the equivalent of “don’t talk about it,” is a vulgarism that can not be too severely condemned.
A vulgarism for “fancy” or “stylish,” either of which is a preferable term.
A vulgarism or tailor’s cant for pantaloons meaning trousers which should be the word used by preference.
Used in the sense “lacking in intelligence,” this word is a vulgarism to be avoided.
He is wrong also in thinking that he was restoring a characteristic vulgarism in aleven.
We are so engrossed in stupidity and vulgarism that we shun delicacy and loftiness of mind; we think it a bore to show respect to great men.
Footnote 623: Sic (raihh), a common vulgarismin this text.
Footnote 214: Ra'hhin, a vulgarism of frequent occurrence in this story.
Vulgarism in language is the next and distinguishing characteristic of bad company and a bad education.
A vulgarism not often seen in writing, but common in conversation, consists in the use of an unnecessary pronoun after the subject of a sentence.
They are the distinguishing characteristics of men of fashion: people of low education never wear them so close, but that some part or other of the original vulgarism appears.
The sounding of the syllable ing as if it were in, is a vulgarismin utterance; and the writing of it so, is, as it would seem by the usage of Burns, a Scotticism.
Contrast with the case of "scientist" a vulgarism such as the use of "transpire" in the sense of "happen.
Yet it cannot be denied that a great deal of Slang phraseology and expressive vulgarism have gradually crept into the very pulpits which should give forth as pure speech as doctrine.
Macaulay says: "Mutual friend is a low vulgarism for common friend.
Here is a gross vulgarism which we sometimes hear from persons of considerable culture.
This is a vulgarism of the worst description, yet we hear people, who would be highly indignant if any one should intimate that they were not ladies and gentlemen, say, "He had ought to go.