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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A vernacularism; an idiom.

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Examples

  • 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

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