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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Popularity  \Pop`u*lar"i*ty\,  n.;  pl  {Popularities}.  [L. 
  popularitas  an  effort  to  please  the  people:  cf  F. 
  popularit['e].] 
  1.  The  quality  or  state  of  being  popular;  especially,  the 
  state  of  being  esteemed  by  or  of  being  in  favor  with  the 
  people  at  large  good  will  or  favor  proceeding  from  the 
  people;  as  the  popularity  of  a  law,  statesman,  or  a  book. 
 
  A  popularity  which  has  lasted  down  to  our  time. 
  --Macaulay. 
 
  2.  The  quality  or  state  of  being  adapted  or  pleasing  to 
  common,  poor,  or  vulgar  people;  hence  cheapness; 
  inferiority;  vulgarity. 
 
  This  gallant  laboring  to  avoid  popularity  falls  into 
  a  habit  of  affectation.  --B.  Jonson 
 
  3.  Something  which  obtains,  or  is  intended  to  obtain,  the 
  favor  of  the  vulgar;  claptrap. 
 
  Popularities,  and  circumstances  which  .  .  .  sway  the 
  ordinary  judgment.  --Bacon. 
 
  4.  The  act  of  courting  the  favor  of  the  people.  [Obs.] 
  ``Indicted  .  .  .  for  popularity  and  ambition.''  --Holland. 
 
  5.  Public  sentiment;  general  passion.  [R.] 
 
  A  little  time  be  allowed  for  the  madness  of 
  popularity  to  cease.  --Bancroft.