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vox populi

[ voks pop-yuh-lahy ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

vox populi

/ ˈpɒpjʊˌlaɪ /

First recorded in 1540–50; from Latin vōx populī, equivalent to vōx “voice” + populī, genitive singular of populus people; voice ( def )

Latin

There was a time the vox populi was considerably less dry on Election Day.

There are times, when "the spirit of God descends upon the gathered multitudes," and vox populi is vox Dei.

Vox populi est vox Dei is obviously the apotheosis of ones own voice while speaking as crowd-man.

Its ever sounding and resistless vox populi thunders through their columns, to cheer or to subdue, to elevate or to destroy.

And the tenderness of this relation has not escaped vox populi, that keen discriminator.

The theory of democracy—vox populi vox dei—is a pure superstition, a belief in a divine or natural sanction which does not exist.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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