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Synonyms for populace

Grammar : Noun
Spell : pop-yuh-luh s
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɒp yə ləs

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Définition of populace

Origin :
  • 1570s, from Middle French populace (16c.), from Italian popolaccio "riffraff, rabble," from popolo "people" (from Latin populus "people;" see people (n.)) + pejorative suffix -accio.
  • noun people
Example sentences :
  • Miss Hilton and Miss Parker and some of our girls composed the populace.
  • Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
  • In this instance, the populace are more puritanic than the magistrate.
  • Extract from : « Old News » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Faithful ministers are rarely eulogised by the populace or the court.
  • Extract from : « Calderon The Courtier » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • The populace were all civility to him so were the ministers.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 » by Various
  • There the authorities and the populace received us very well.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) » by Various
  • But the fury of the populace did not suffer him to remain there awaiting that event.
  • Extract from : « Chronicles of Border Warfare » by Alexander Scott Withers
  • He had been saved from the fury of the populace in the courtyard of the Tuileries.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs Of The Court Of Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France, Complete » by Madame Campan
  • The populace when in power drive the nobility from the city.
  • Extract from : « Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight » by Mathew Joseph Holt
  • They had the support of the populace and the Alberti and Medici families.
  • Extract from : « Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight » by Mathew Joseph Holt
  • The excitement of the populace was now ungovernable and the air was filled with groans and cries.
  • Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine

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