Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The vulgar; the rabble.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The common sort of people; the crowd; the mob.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The
common people ; thecrowd ; themob .
Etymologies
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Latin vulgus.
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Examples
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Quando che al mar fi volge, e fi dipinge in mente allora un 'Ifola beata,
Essai sur l'homme, poëme philosophique, en cinq langues, savoir: anglois, latin, italien ... 1772
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“E questo cielo non ha altro dove che la mente divina, in che s’accende l’amor che il volge e la virt ch’ ei piove.”
The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage 1293-1381 1916
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Compare Tennyson's _Locksley Hall, Sixty Years After_ -- "Hesper, whom the poet call'd the Bringer home of all good things."] {181} [227] "Era già l'ora che volge il disio
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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