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Epic Demotic Popular Di Mah Tik Adjective Common Greek Demotikos

Front demotic \di-MAH-tik\
Back adjective
Common, popular.

[Greek demotikos, from demotes, a commoner, from demos, people.]

"His (Francesco Zolla) admirers responded to the epic component, rare in his time: epic in its demotic rhetoric, in its commonplaces, in its preference for collective scenes and tidal movements, epic finally in the excitement it provoked among the rising or aspiring lower classes-- teachers, artisans, clients of popular libraries, buyers of cheap popular editions." - Weber, Eugen, Zola: A Life (book reviews), The New Republic, 31 Jul 1995.

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