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Webster 1913 Edition
Vulgarism
Vul′gar-ism
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
vulgarisme
.] 1.
Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.
2.
A vulgar phrase or expression.
A fastidious taste will find offense in the occasional
vulgarisms
, or what we now call “slang,” which not a few of our writers seem to have affected. Coleridge.
Webster 1828 Edition
Vulgarism
VULGARISM
,Noun.
1.
Grossness of manners; vulgarity. [Little used.]2.
A vulgar phrase or expression. [This is the usual sense of the word.]