Word Finder - popularity

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The quality or state of being popular; especially, the state of being esteemed by, or of being in favor with, the people at large

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Politicians are rarely known for their popularity.

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The quality or state of being adapted or pleasing to common, poor, or vulgar people; hence, cheapness; inferiority; vulgarity.

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Something which obtains, or is intended to obtain, the favor of the vulgar; claptrap.

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The act of courting the favour of the people.

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Public sentiment; general passion.

His talents and amiability soon won him great popularity, especially among the peasants.

Henceforward Ayala's position and popularity were secure.

His writings long enjoyed a high popularity.

He allowed the prince to hope for such a union, and thus enhanced the popularity of the French party at Madrid.

Due to the restaurant's popularity at the weekends, reservations are recommended.

Whether he had really given any grounds for suspicion is unknown; but there is no doubt, so great was his popularity with the soldiers and such the hatred felt for Nero, that he could easily have seized the throne.

There is a tradition in the Talmud which illustrates his popularity.

From their point of view zero popularity is a time wasting.

He demanded the suppression of the order and thus acquired popularity.

A superb climb, unfortunately getting polished now due to its popularity.

Neither series when published attained any great popularity.

In February Whitefield went to Bristol, where his popularity was unbounded.

Meanwhile the sultan's whole efforts were directed towards the reform of the country; the newly-instituted militia was in every respect a success; it grew in numbers, and hopes were entertained that it would gain popularity.

His most important work was his Economia politica del medio evo (Turin, 1839), which enjoyed great popularity at the time, but is now of little value.

Even the opposition pollsters say that Chavez enjoys overwhelming popularity.

The obsession with regaining popularity among European leaders seems to take precedence over any other considerations.

Winter sports on the other hand enjoy a much greater popularity in the Federal Republic than in the UK.

Hopper's enduring popularity stems from his ability to stage scenes from everyday life in a way which also addresses universal concerns.

Before the immense popularity of the pole, the waggler and stick float did the business.

A Google search will reveal 1.2 million results - an indication of its surging popularity worldwide!

This renewed popularity of herbal medicine is all part of a movement toward taking greater responsibility for our health.

Bargaining tablefirst to a third property in chicago and hold'em's popularity are.

Enjoy the city's natural wonders, historical significance and popularity as a centrally-located meeting and convention destination.

The latter was received with great enthusiasm both in England (where it reached its 19th edition) and in America, but recent criticism has lessened its popularity and it is now almost forgotten.

Pop. (1891), 29,296; (igoi), 33373 It owes its popularity to its chalybeate spring and its beautiful situation in a hilly wooded district.

The book attained an almost unprecedented popularity both in America and in Europe, where it was translated into several languages; and it came to be considered a classic. Immediately after the appearance of this book Dana began the practice of law, which brought him a large number of maritime cases.

No platform was adopted, the widespread popularity of Jackson being relied upon to win success at the polls.

It is only since about 1870 that this popularity has grown up. Ten years earlier even rowing-boats were few excepting at Oxford, at Henley in regatta time, and at Putney on the tideway.

Eclecticism gained great popularity, and, partly owing to Cousin's position as minister of public instruction, became the authorized system in the chief seats of learning in France, where it has given a most remarkable impulse to the study of the history of philosophy.

Its popularity remained unimpaired after the fall of Persia, and it was during the ferment following the conquests of Alexander that the characteristics which mark it during the Roman period were firmly fixed.

As the king could not abandon Portugal to itself he determined at first to send the prince thither as regent, but Dom Pedro had acquired such popularity by his conduct in the revolution, and had exhibited such a thirst for glory, that the king feared to trust his adventurous spirit in Europe, and decided to go himself.

Meanwhile the well-deserved popularity of the emperor began to decline.

The last days of the Confederate Congress were spent in recriminations between that body and President Davis, and the popularity with which he commenced his administration had almost entirely vanished.

By this course he sacrificed the great popularity he had won as the champion of free trade, and became for a time the best-abused man in England.

The alarm of the government at the power and popularity of the Liberal party induced it, soon after the accession of the new king, the emperor Ferdinand I.

But, however gratifying such an elevation might be, it was distinctly prejudicial, at first, to Hungary's domestic affairs, for no one else at this time, in Hungary, possessed either the prestige or the popularity of Andrassy.

Contemporaneously with the remarkable discoveries of the Italian mathematicians, algebra was increasing in popularity in Germany, France and England.

The Trialist solution (which would have united the Yugoslav provinces of Austria-Hungary in a third state enjoying equality with the two existing partners) rapidly lost popularity, even among the clerical parties, which had been attracted by the prospect of Catholic predominance in such a State.

Both works, though showing little originality of thought, achieved wide popularity.

Mr Arch nevertheless retained sufficient popularity to be returned to parliament for north-west Norfolk in 1885; and although defeated next year owing to his advocacy of Irish Home Rule, he regained his seat in 1892, and held it in 1895, retiring in 1900.

It is plainly Gnostic and may perhaps have been composed by Bardaisan or his son Harmonius.0 Among recent editions of Apocrypha in Syriac may be mentioned those of the Apocalypse of Baruch, the Epistle of Baruch, ' For the later Monophysite versions, none of which attained much popularity, see Wright's Syr.

He had never been a rich man, nor had he been a saving one, and during his period of popularity and office he had incurred great expenses.

Jocelyn had at one time more popularity in England than most French verse.

The popularity of Caelius is evidenced by the fact that in the 6th century an abridgment of his larger work was recommended by Cassiodorus to the Benedictine monks for the study of medicine.

As in the case of Galen, the formal and encyclopaedic character of Avicenna's works was the chief cause of his popularity and ascendancy, though in modern times these very qualities in a scientific or medical writer would rather cause him to become more speedily antiquated.

The popularity of the story of Jason and Medea in antiquity is shown by the large amount of literature on the subject.

The growth of popularity of the cycle, and later of the motor-car, has been a principal factor in the wide development of a tendency to leave London during the ” week-end,” that is to say, as a rule, for Saturday afternoon and Sunday.

But as Fox on this occasion aided the vested interests of some English manufacturers he secured a certain revival of popularity.

Alike Tory grandees and constituency loyalists are reveling in their party's new-found popularity.

He denounced Marat's placards as inciting to murder, summoned Danton to give an account of his ministry, watched carefully over the furnishing of military supplies, and was a strong opponent of Dumouriez, in spite of the general's great popularity.