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Noun: plebeianism
  1. The quality or state of being of or pertaining to the common people; of being vulgar, common
    "The plebeianism of his father showed itself in the ungainly shell, in the indifference to personal cleanliness, and in the mongrel spirit which drove him to acts of physical cowardice for which his apologists blush"

Derived forms: plebeianisms

Type of: origin

Encyclopedia: Plebeianism