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Definition of Popularly
1. Adverb. Among the people. "This topic was popularly discussed"
Definition of Popularly
1. adv. In a popular manner; so as to be generally favored or accepted by the people; commonly; currently; as, the story was popularity reported.
Definition of Popularly
1. Adverb. In a popular manner; so as to be generally favored or accepted by the people; commonly; currently; as, the story was popularly reported. ¹
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Definition of Popularly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Popularly
Literary usage of Popularly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"... contributed especially to the production and elal>oration of the fable : (1)
the former use of a pierced seat, popularly supposed to be a precautionary ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1891)
"... was popularly styled ' Duke Humphrey's Walk,' from a totally erroneous notion
that a monument overlooking it was Duke Humphrey's tomb. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"And as such acts are done under cover of authority, the blame of them is popularly
attributed to the British Government, which in truth is utterly incapable ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... of a Joint Stock Company" are humorously exaggerated sketches of traits
popularly supposed by the English to be characteristically American. ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Salvador latter, Izalco, popularly called the "Lighthouse of Salvador" from its
almost continual eruptions (three to each hour), broke out in a small plain ..."
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