1924, Ford Madox Ford, The Transatlantic Review, volume 1, page 62 (Translatlantic Review Co.)
In short, if we had to propagandise, remembering that our interests are the interests of the arts and of tranquillity, we could only pray that the reign of the British Left should be only a short breather with, to follow it, a long period in the shades of opposition where they may learn that historic sentiments are still more powerful than any international proletarianisms and that if you and your friends have murdered a man’s remote ancestor that man and his descendants will go on disliking you for generations in spite of all the labours of all your Research Departments.
1937, Louis Furman Sas, The Noun Declension System in Merovingian Latin, page 7 (self-published)
We have seen in modern post-war literature attempts to reproduce this “oral” layer, but even in French writers like Barbusse, Céline, Romains, etc., we feel the literary effort involved and are compelled to admit that, in spite of the proletarianisms of syntax and the mangled or “vulgar” pronunciations, we are really reading samples of a “vulgarized” middle layer. As for a “proletarian” language written by people without any culture, we are unable to find any lengthy samples of it anywhere.
1943, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volumes 73–75, page 11 (self-published)
Mohammed appeared and gave them a society and civilization of novel cast. The civilization was new precisely in its proletarianisms: its appeal to the common denominators and therefore to the commonnesses of men; its discarding of much of the heritage of the past; its simplification of ideas; its levelling and denunciations; its long list of prohibitions.
1972, Richard Poirier, Norman Mailer, page 34 (Viking Press)
The style of the book lacks the eccentricity and wildness that belongs to the world being evoked. There is too much of Fitzgerald diluted with proletarianisms supposed to fit the personality and background of the narrator; there is far too little of Nathanael West, except in bits of the book dealing with Marion Faye.
The scatological proletarianisms of Don Jonz reflect poorly on your heretofore high level of editorial standards.
1975, Vivian de Sola Pinto, Renaissance and Modern Studies, volumes 19–20, page 117 (University of Nottingham)
Orthodoxy views things otherwise. Leafing through Left Review (or even through Symons’s partial quotations from it) one notices how rarely are the fake-proletarianisms, the boilersuit, the dropped-H syndrome, the soupy expressions of solidarity, by helots who continued helot, how those who wrote these Sentimental things were most often to end in orthodoxy’s bosom, even if they are not chief among orthodoxy’s authors.
1992, Thomas Burns McArthur [ed.], The Oxford Companion to the English language, page 553 (Oxford University Press; →ISBN, 9780192141835)
There is a fine dividing line between the everyday sensationalism of popular and tabloid journalism and the parodies in such publications as the British satirical magazine Private Eye, which uses proletarianisms in such headlines as The Royals, dontcha lovem!
1999, Christine Bold, The WPA Guides: Mapping America, page 173
If Conroy submitted “proletarianisms” and Balch “chaos,” another rhetorical mode — also rejected by Washington — was the false cosmopolitanism of Geraldine Parker.
Sadly, even the ‘genteel’ proletarianisms of Polly and his class are nowadays only normally heard among citizens over the age of fifty. In a few years that richly nuanced dialect will be as dead as Sanskrit.
