Dictionary entry

Vulgarity

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Vul‐gar″i‐ty (?), n. [Cf. F. vulgarité, L. vulgaritas the multitude.]

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 of the frequenters of Bartholomew Fair. B. Jonson.