Meanings
plural vulgarisations
- UKcountablenonstandarduncountableNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of vulgarization.
William Edward Collinson wrote a vulgarization book in Esperanto about linguistics.
2 more examples
The Asolani (composed about 1500–2, printed in 1505 and dedicated to Lucrezia Borgia), a work of vulgarisation in the good sense, explained in Platonic dialogue form the principles of Platonic love, […]
1957, “The Arts in Western Europe: Vernacular Literature in Western Europe”, in The New Cambridge Modern History, volume I, page 177Artistic practices which adopt the traits of popular culture, whether in the art objects themselves, or in the ways they are disseminated, are seen to involve the vulgarisation of art.
1995, Paul Melia, David Hockney, →ISBN, page 24
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe act of rendering something coarse and unrefined
nounthe act of making something attractive to the general public
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