Definition of "vernacularity" [vernacularity]

• A vernacularism; an idiom. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "No doubt he was; and no doubt, as the expression _Mio Cid_ is not a translation from the Arabic, but a quite evidently genuine vernacularity, he was sung of in those terms."
• "Remsen touched his cap, looked between the chestnut's ears, and took refuge in vernacularity."
• "However, I went through wid it as well as I could; where I couldn't find Latin, I laid in the Greek, and where the Greek failed me, I gave the Irish, which, to tell the truth, in consequence of its vernacularity, I found to be the most convanient."