† pleˈbeity Obs. rare.
Also 7 plebeyity.
[f. L. plēbēi-us plebeian + -ity: cf. laity, nobility, etc.; L. had plēbitās *plebity.]
1. The lower or plebeian class; the commonalty.
| 1618 Wotton in Reliq. (1651) 190 The Plebeyity (whose supream Object is Bread) cried in all corners, Viva Donato. 1656 Blount Glossogr., Plebeity, the commonalty, the vulgar people. |
2. Plebeian rank or birth.
| 1679 Jenison's Popish Plot Pref. 7 That..his Extraction may advance him above the common exceptions of Lowness and Plebeity, which inferiour Testimonies are subject to. |