vulgus
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It is from vulgus, the common people, the mob, and means both common and unrefined, but has no relation to indecency.
From Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults by Ambrose Bierce
Some have described it as an ad captandum vulgus use of words, and others have called it rash, and unduly sceptical.
From Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities by J. Stephen (James Stephen) Jeans
And as for those cattle whereof I spake before, Odi profanum vulgus, et arceo, of which I account them, be they never so great, and so I leave them.
From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Cyril Brett
The following nouns in -us are Neuter:— pelagus, sea; vīrus, poison; vulgus, crowd.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
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
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