Vul*gar"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F.
vulgarité, L. vulgaritas the multitude.]
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 of the frequenters of
Bartholomew Fair.
B. Jonson.