vernacularistn.
1. An advocate of the use of a regional mode of speech; a speaker or writer in a regional or demotic idiom.
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the mind > language > a language > dialect > [noun] > regional dialects > advocacy of > advocate of the use of
vernacularist1905
society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writers in specific language or dialect
Latin-maker14..
Latinist1538
Indo-Anglian1883
vernacularist1926
1905 P. M. Mehta Speeches & Writings 6 Two parties, who may be conveniently denominated as the Vernacularists and the Anglicists.
1926 Glasgow Herald 27 July 10 There was ample material..in the industrial struggle with which Clydeside was so familiar, which in the hands of a Vernacularist of genius could produce a play so striking as ‘Strife’.
1974 Sat. Rev. World (U.S.) 4 Dec. 46/2 Creosote bush, which the Spaniards called hedonillo but the American vernacularists termed ‘little stinker’.
2. Roman Catholic Church. An advocate of the use of the vernacular in the liturgy. Also attributive or as adj.
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the mind > language > a language > [noun] > native language > advocate of use of vernacular in the liturgy
vernacularist1956
society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > [noun] > use of the vernacular in > advocate of
vernacularist1956
the mind > language > a language > [adjective] > native or vernacular > that advocates the vernacular in the liturgy
vernacularist1982
society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > [adjective] > relating to liturgy > advocating vernacular in
vernacularist1982
1956 Catholic Herald 9 Mar. 2/4 Was St. Thomas a Vernacularist?
1982 Observer 25 Apr. 30/3 Mr St John-Stevas's Latin is not good.., but that is a venial sin in these vernacularist days.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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