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plebeian
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  • a plebeian magistrate
  • And hoist thee up to the shouting plebeians;  (source)
  • He liked the community's stasis, its plebeian virtues and unassuming mien.  (source)
    plebeian = belonging to common people
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  • Cheerful and plebeian, shining for all alike.†  (source)
  • But then the adoration of Franklin to be found in all quarters was extraordinary, as Adams would later recount: His name was familiar to government and people, to kings, courtiers, nobility, clergy, and philosophers, as well as plebeians, to such a degree that there was scarcely a peasant or citizen, a valet de chambre, coachman or footman, a lady's chambermaid or a scullion in a kitchen, who was not familiar with it, and who did not consider him as a friend of humankind.†  (source)
  • It was a fair parallel between new Plebeianism and old Gentility.†  (source)
  • The omission threw her back to some ignominious spot at the Circle, some plebeian place of being a spokeswoman, a public shill.†  (source)
  • The struggle between the patricians and plebeians of Rome must be considered in the same light: it was simply an intestine feud between the elder and younger branches of the same family.†  (source)
  • Amaranta, was so scandalized with the plebeian invasion that she went back to eating in the kitchen as in olden days.†  (source)
  • In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations.†  (source)
  • —that there mingled in her regal beauty something of the too-quick, diffident, plebeian disdain.†  (source)
  • exclaims Watteau; Lancret, the painter of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the azure sky; Diderot stretches out his arms to all these love idyls, and d'Urfe mingles druids with them.†  (source)
  • Has the Resistance been bribing some Plebeian drudge to sneak you in?†  (source)
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