vulgus
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However much these may catch the attention and awaken the admiration of the ignobile vulgus, they cannot fail to excite any thing but complacency in minds accustomed to the more chaste productions of the pencil.
From Gleanings by the Way by John A. Clark
He gave her his arm, and they vanished from the eyes of the ignobile vulgus.
From One Year Abroad by Blanche Willis Howard
Mob is short for the Latin phrase mobile vulgus, which means "excitable crowd."
From Stories That Words Tell Us by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman) O'Neill
The following nouns in -us are Neuter:— pelagus, sea; vīrus, poison; vulgus, crowd.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
Odi profanum vulgus, et arceo, is the only law; while we are a chemical solution, our architecture is only a mechanical one.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various
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