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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

The Conqueror never escaped the reproach of his birth, into which bastardy and plebeianism entered in equal proportions.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various

With the ancient Greeks, the plebeian qualities were not all virtues by any means; they retained through their great age many of the vices of plebeianism.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth

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

And who are Mr. Helps and Miss Emma Fisher and the 'many others,' whose company brings one down to the right plebeianism?

From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Browning, Robert