populace
/ˈpɑpjələs/ noun C2- The common people of a nation. · The populace despised their ignorant leader.
- The inhabitants of a country or one of its administrative divisions (such as a state, province, or county).
Plural populaces
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However, scarcely was the imperial power established—that is, scarcely had the emperor re-entered the Tuileries and begun to issue orders from the closet into which we have introduced our readers,—he found on the table there Louis XVIII.’s half-filled snuff-box,—scarcely had this occurred when Marseilles began, in spite of the authorities, to rekindle the flames of civil war, always smouldering in the south, and it required but little to excite the populace to acts of far greater violence than the shouts and insults with which they assailed the royalists whenever they ventured abroad.
Within a year, Penguin had sold over three million copies, proving definitively that a voracious appetite for quality literature existed among the general populace.
More importantly, the systematic removal of contaminated water from the immediate vicinity of the populace drastically reduced the widespread transmission of devastating waterborne diseases.
In the bustling metropolis of nineteenth-century London, a distinctive literary phenomenon captivated the populace with remarkable regularity.
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