Word Meanings - UNVULGARIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To divest of vulgarity; to make to be not vulgar. Lamb.
Related words: (words related to UNVULGARIZE)
- DIVESTITURE
The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc. - DIVESTMENT
The act of divesting. - VULGARIZATION
The act or process of making vulgar, or common. - DIVESTURE
Divestiture. - DIVEST
See W (more info) devestire. It is the same word as devest, but the latter is rarely 1. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest. 2. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; - VULGARIAN
A vulgar person; one who has vulgar ideas. Used also adjectively. - VULGARISM
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. - VULGARLY
In a vulgar manner. - VULGARIZE
To make vulgar, or common. Exhortation vulgarized by low wit. V. Knox. - VULGAR
1. Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular. "As common as any the most vulgar thing to sense. " Shak. Things vulgar, and well-weighed, scarce worth the praise. - VULGARNESS
The quality of being vulgar. - VULGARITY
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 - DIVESTIBLE
Capable of being divested. - DEVULGARIZE
To free from what is vulgar, common, or narrow. Shakespeare and Plutarch's "Lives" are very devulgarizing books. E. A. Abbott. - INVULGAR
To cause to become or appear vulgar. Daniel. - UNVULGARIZE
To divest of vulgarity; to make to be not vulgar. Lamb. - SUPRAVULGAR
Being above the vulgar or common people. Collier.