A popularity which has lasted down to our time.
--Macaulay.
2. The quality or state of being adapted or pleasing to
common, poor, or vulgar people; hence, cheapness;
inferiority; vulgarity.
This gallant laboring to avoid popularity falls into
a habit of affectation. --B. Jonson.
3. Something which obtains, or is intended to obtain, the
favor of the vulgar; claptrap.
Popularities, and circumstances which . . . sway the
ordinary judgment. --Bacon.
4. The act of courting the favor of the people. [Obs.]
``Indicted . . . for popularity and ambition.'' --Holland.
5. Public sentiment; general passion. [R.]
A little time be allowed for the madness of
popularity to cease. --Bancroft.