Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for VUL-GAR'I-TY, or VUL'GAR-NESS
VUL-GAR'I-TY, or VUL'GAR-NESS, n.
- Mean condition in life; the state of the lower classes of society. – Brown.
- Grossness or clownishness of manners or language; as, vulgarity of behavior; vulgarity of expression or language. – Dryden.
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