plebeianism
- a word derived from plebeian.
Example Sentences
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But thrift and hard work, the great enemies of professional plebeianism, got even Old McDonald in the end.
From Time Magazine Archive
What can be more admirable than this ‘de bon air’ plebeianism, and universal right-hand of fellowship?
From Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord
The proper course, according to the practice of travelling nobodies, desirous of intruding their plebeianism into a foreign court, would have been to apply to their ambassadors.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
On the hypothesis of the essential goodness of man, how then is to be explained the monstrous attempt to change the authority of some into nobility and the obedience of others into plebeianism?
From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
Others there are who, passable in appearance when clad in their ordinary garments, reach the very acme of plebeianism when they clothe themselves in the unaccommodating evening-dress.
From Vendetta: a story of one forgotten by Corelli, Marie
