plebification

English

Etymology

From Latin plebs (“the common people”) + -ficare (“to make”, in comparative). See -fy.

Noun

plebification (usually uncountable, plural plebifications)

1. Making plebeian; vulgarizing.
   • 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend:

     You begin with the attempt to popularize learning […] but you will end in the plebification of knowledge.

Related terms

• plebify

References

• “plebification”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.