vernacularity

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No doubt he was; and no doubt, as the expression Mio Cid is not a translation from the Arabic, but a quite evidently genuine vernacularity, he was sung of in those terms.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George

Remsen touched his cap, looked between the chestnut's ears, and took refuge in vernacularity.

From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by Henry, O.

That the merit, which justly you ascribe to Swift, is vernacularity; he never forgets his mother-tongue in exotic forms, unless we may call Irish exotic; for Hibernicisms he certainly has.

From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas