vernacularity

No doubt he was; and no doubt, as the expression _Mio Cid_ is not a translation from the Arabic, but a quite evidently genuine vernacularity, he was sung of in those terms.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

Remsen touched his cap, looked between the chestnut's ears, and took refuge in vernacularity.

The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886

However, I went through wid it as well as I could; where I couldn't find Latin, I laid in the Greek, and where the Greek failed me, I gave the Irish, which, to tell the truth, in consequence of its vernacularity, I found to be the most convanient.

The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

I think for the purposes of the conference I said that the project of my dissertation was “vernacularity and temporality in immediately pre - and post-conquest England” – which is my project – but it’s also still far more than that.

Kalamazoo 2007 Mary Kate Hurley 2007

Adrian Hastings’ assertion of vernacularity as a key component in the beginnings of nationalist sentiment has found eager adherents in Anglo-Saxon studies, which, we are often reminded, boasts the first vernacular translation of the Bible. [

Dissertation Fragments III: The Prospectus Mary Kate Hurley 2007

Adrian Hastings’ assertion of vernacularity as a key component in the beginnings of nationalist sentiment has found eager adherents in Anglo-Saxon studies, which, we are often reminded, boasts the first vernacular translation of the Bible. [

Archive 2007-12-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007

I think for the purposes of the conference I said that the project of my dissertation was “vernacularity and temporality in immediately pre - and post-conquest England” – which is my project – but it’s also still far more than that.

Archive 2007-05-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007

_vernacularity_; he never forgets his mother-tongue in exotic forms, unless we may call Irish exotic; for Hibernicisms he certainly has.

Note Book of an English Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey 1822