vulgus
Americannoun
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vulguses
plural
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the common people; masses.
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an exercise in Latin formerly required of English public-school pupils.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of vulgus
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1680–90
Example Sentences
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“Tell it not in Gath” that this charming sanctuary lies hidden away in Derbyshire, come away privately with us and enjoy its beauties undisturbed—“Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.”
From Stained Glass Tours in England by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill
He gave her his arm, and they vanished from the eyes of the ignobile vulgus.
From One Year Abroad by Blanche Willis Howard
Horace introduces that series of his Odes which most breathes a national spirit by disclaiming all sympathy with the ‘profanum vulgus.’
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. Sellar
Remembering this, I forbear tying Sellar to odi profanum vulgus.
From An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
The successful results naturally attending this treatment were attributed by the ignobile vulgus to the wonderful ointment.
From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence
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