plebification

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noun

Making plebeian; vulgarizing.

OriginLatin plebs →
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Meanings

nounplebification (usually uncountable, plural plebifications)

plural plebifications

  1. uncountableusuallyMaking plebeian; vulgarizing.

    You begin with the attempt to popularize learning […] but you will end in the plebification of knowledge.

    1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend

Origin

  1. Latinplebs“the common people”
  2. Englishplebification

From Latin plebs (“the common people”) + -ficare (“to make”, in comparative). See -fy.

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APA

plebification. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plebification

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “plebification,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plebification.

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