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Word Meanings - LOWBORN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Born in a low condition or rank; -- opposed to highborn.

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  • PLEBEIANCE
    1. Plebeianism. 2. Plebeians, collectively.
  • COARSE
    was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
  • LOWBORN
    Born in a low condition or rank; -- opposed to highborn.
  • IGNOBLENESS
    State or quality of being ignoble.
  • COARSELY
    In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.
  • VULGARIZATION
    The act or process of making vulgar, or common.
  • LOWBRED
    Bred, or like one bred, in a low condition of life; characteristic or indicative of such breeding; rude; impolite; vulgar; as, a lowbred fellow; a lowbred remark.
  • VULGARIAN
    A vulgar person; one who has vulgar ideas. Used also adjectively.
  • VULGARISM
    1. Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity. 2. A vulgar phrase or expression. A fastidious taste will find offense in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call "slang," which not a few of our writers seem to have affected. Coleridge.
  • IGNOBLE
    Not a true or noble falcon; -- said of certain hawks, as the goshawk. Syn. -- Degenerate; degraded; mean; base; dishonorable; reproachful; disgraceful; shameful; scandalous; infamous. (more info) 1. Of low birth or family; not noble;
  • VULGARLY
    In a vulgar manner.
  • VULGARIZE
    To make vulgar, or common. Exhortation vulgarized by low wit. V. Knox.
  • PLEBEIANIZE
    To render plebeian, common, or vulgar.
  • PLEBEIANISM
    1. The quality or state of being plebeian. 2. The conduct or manners of plebeians; vulgarity.
  • VULGAR
    1. Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular. "As common as any the most vulgar thing to sense. " Shak. Things vulgar, and well-weighed, scarce worth the praise.
  • COARSEN
    To make coarse or vulgar; as, to coarsen one's character. Graham.
  • VULGARNESS
    The quality of being vulgar.
  • VULGARITY
    1. The quality or state of being vulgar; mean condition of life; the state of the lower classes of society. Sir T. Browne. 2. Grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness. The reprobate vulgarity
  • COARSENESS
    The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; melegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language. "The coarseness of the sackcloth." Dr. H. More. Pardon the coarseness of the illustration. L'Estrange.
  • COARSE-GRAINED
    Having a coarse grain or texture, as wood; hence, wanting in refinement.
  • DEVULGARIZE
    To free from what is vulgar, common, or narrow. Shakespeare and Plutarch's "Lives" are very devulgarizing books. E. A. Abbott.
  • INVULGAR
    To cause to become or appear vulgar. Daniel.
  • UNVULGARIZE
    To divest of vulgarity; to make to be not vulgar. Lamb.
  • SUPRAVULGAR
    Being above the vulgar or common people. Collier.

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