vulgus

Example Sentences

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For the next four weeks you will consort with the profanum vulgus in your House Common Room, where I fancy that bridge and other intellectual pursuits are not much cultivated.

From A Knight on Wheels by Hay, Ian

The refinement of Rome might loftily echo Odi profanum vulgus et arceo: but Rome has herself fallen; and not on the portals of future science or of humanity shall any such motto be written.

From The Christian Religion An Enquiry by Ingersoll, Robert Green

Probe jam noverat Sanctissimus ille, nec sapientia minus, quam pietatis laude clarissimus Antistes Franciscus Salesius, nonnisi ad ciendas turbas, atque ad imbecilles animos commovendos, agitari haec passim, ac in vulgus jactari.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, March 1865 by Various

Turner in 1538 says, "ligustrum arbor est non herba ut literatorū vulgus credit; nihil que minus est quam a Prymerose."

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

The motto was, "Odi profanum vulgus et arceo."

From Public School Education by Müller, Michael