Now rare or Obs. [f. VULGAR a. + -NESS.]
1. = VULGARITY 2 and 3.
1612. Brerewood, Lang. & Relig., 10. At this day, the Greek tongue is very much decayed, not onely as touching the largness, and vulgarness of it, but also in the pureness and elegancy of the language.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, Pref. And for the Vulgarness of them: true Axiomes must be drawne from plain Experience.
1648. Hexham, II. Ongemeyntigheydt, Rarity, not Vulgarnesse, or Commonnesse.
2. = VULGARITY 4.
1642. Rogers, Naaman, 386. All such indecency and vulgarnesse of carriage.
1721. Bailey, Vulgarity, Vulgarness, the manner of the common People.
1759. Compl. Lett.-writer (ed. 6), 226. First come, first serve; I detest such vulgarness.
1796. Anna Seward, Lett. (1811), IV. 206. Alleging that immorality, vulgarness, bombast, and even obscurity, pervaded all my writings.
