commonplaceness (komonplasnes)

The quality of being commonplace or trite and uninteresting. The naïve commonplacene of feeling in all matrimonial transactions, in spite of the glo which the operatic methods of courtship threw about them, was a source of endle amusement. Howells , Venetian Life, xix. Our Vicar. happens to be rather drowsy and even depre ing in the monotony of his commonplacene , W. Black , Phaeton, xix. commons (kom'onz), n. pl. [ comyns , pl. of com on , etc.: see common , n.] 1. The people; especially, the common people as distinguished from their rulers or a ruling cla ; hence, the mean; the vulgar; the rabble. The left comouns folowid the arke. Wyclif , Josh. vi. 9 (Oxf.). Thanne come there a kyng knyzthod hym ladde, Mizt of the comunes made hym to regne. Piers Plowman (B), Prol., 1. 113. What comyn folke is so mighty, so strong in the felde, as the comyns of England? English State Papers (1515), quoted in Froude's Hist. [Eng., I. 27. Specifically-2. The freemen of England as commontyl (kom'on-ti), n.; pl. common ties (-tiz). [Also formerly commenty; No man shall make yates or gapes in the common feild, upon the corne or gra e of his neighbors, but by the con on sent of [the] commonty. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 434. 2t. The commonalty; the common people. The morowe erly wolde he ride toward the plain of Salisbery, where-as the comounte of the peple sholde a emble. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 574. God graunt the nobilitie hir to serue and loue, With all the whole common tie as doth them behoue. Udall , Roister Doister, v. 6. 3. In Scots law, a piece of land belonging to two or more common proprietors, and in general burdened with sundry inferior rights of servitude, such as feal and divot, etc.; a com mon.