adjective
- of or pertaining to the ordinary, everyday, current form of a language; vernacular: a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms.
- of or pertaining to the common people; popular.
Source:
“The ‘steward’ of this demotic flock, one Mr. D’Arnoq, stood beneath the modest cruciform…”
Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas: a novel. New York: Random House, 2004: 8.
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