Vulgarisation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of vulgarization. UK, alt-of, countable, nonstandard, uncountable

    "William Edward Collinson wrote a vulgarization book in Esperanto about linguistics."

  2. 2
    the act of making something attractive to the general public wordnet
  3. 3
    the act of rendering something coarse and unrefined wordnet

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"Many a gentleman of the old school has been provoked to remark regretfully upon the under-bred manners and bearing of even the better classes in the modern industrial communities; and the decay of the ceremonial code—or as it is otherwise called, the vulgarisation of life—among the industrial classes proper has become one of the chief enormities of latter-day civilisation in the eyes of all persons of delicate sensibilities."

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