Definitions
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- noun someone who makes something vulgar
- noun someone who makes attractive to the general public
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Examples
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POPULARISER, vulgariser; imposer à la faveur du peuple.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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He is the middle-man, the interpreter, the vulgariser.
Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890
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But even if his weaknesses gave a handle, which his merits could not save from the grasp of the vulgariser, _Numa Roumestan_ bore the style of a vulture who stoops upon recent corpses, not that of a dispassionate investigator of an interesting character made accessible by length of time.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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` ` Whoy, '' said Mr. Saddletree, delighted at having for once in his life seen his wife's attention arrested by a topic of legal discussion --- ` ` Whoy, there are two sorts of murdrum or murdragium, or what you populariter et vulgariser call murther.
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“Whoy,” said Mr. Saddletree, delighted at having for once in his life seen his wife’s attention arrested by a topic of legal discussion — “Whoy, there are two sorts of murdrum or murdragium, or what you populariter et vulgariser call murther.
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