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

  • POPULARISER, vulgariser; imposer à la faveur du peuple.

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

  • He is the middle-man, the interpreter, the vulgariser.

    Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890

  • 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

  • ` ` 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.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

  • “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.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

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