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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vulgarity \Vul*gar"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. vulgarit['e], L. vulgaritas
the multitude.]
1. The quality or state of being vulgar; mean condition of
life; the state of the lower classes of society. --Sir T.
Browne.
2. Grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence
of refinement; coarseness.
The reprobate vulgarity of the frequenters of
Bartholomew Fair. --B. Jonson
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
vulgarity
n : the quality of lacking taste and refinement [syn: {coarseness},
{commonness}, {grossness}, {vulgarism}]
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