Meaning of common-place | Babel Free

Definitions

Archaic form of commonplace.

alt-of, archaic

Examples

“But they would have⟳ been improved by some share⟳ of his frankness and warmth; and her visit⟳ was long enough to detract something from their first admiration, by shewing that though perfectly well bred, she was reserved, cold, and had nothing to say⟳ for herself beyond the most common-place inquiry or remark⟳.”

“The points I am about to treat⟳ are common-place; and why are they common-place? Simply because they are at once so obvious, and so important, that he who thinks at all, must think⟳ of them.”

“Who does not understand⟳, as single parts of speech, all the common combinations which serve⟳ to connect⟳ and carry⟳ on construction, such as in-consequence-of, on-this-account, under-these-circumstances, at-all-events, admitting-the-fact, and the like⟳? Indeed, we are entitled to say⟳ of ordinary common-place speakers, that as they scarcely use⟳ constructed language except in forms already existing, so, with them, each thought finds an immediate sign⟳ in some familiar sentence; but then, be it observed, the parts which compose the sign⟳ have⟳ ceased to be separately significant: the sentences so used have⟳ been brought back to the condition of original or natural language, that of exclamations,—they have⟳ ceased to be logical, by having become⟳ purely rhetorical.”

“Many well formed and well fed bodies over-indulge in sensuality, take⟳ little or no exercise, and remain⟳ sickly throughout life; many well formed minds, over-indulge in mere gossip, frivolous conversations, and reading novels, take⟳ no serious thought or study⟳, and remain⟳ common-place through life; or worse than common-place, being more or less intensely perverted in proportion to original endowments of mental capacity.”

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