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.