devulgarize

Devulgarize

De*vul"gar*ize\, v. t. To free from what is vulgar, common, or narrow.

Shakespeare and Plutarch's "Lives" are very devulgarizing books. --E. A. Abbott.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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