Vocabulary Word
Word: solecism
Definition: nonstandard grammatical construction; construction that is flagrantly incorrect grammatically; violation of social etiquette
Definition: nonstandard grammatical construction; construction that is flagrantly incorrect grammatically; violation of social etiquette
Sentences Containing 'solecism'
From Alexander the Grammarian, to be un-reprovable myself, and not reproachfully to reprehend any man for a barbarism, or a solecism, or any false pronunciation, but dextrously by way of answer, or testimony, or confirmation of the same matter (taking no notice of the word) to utter it as it should have been spoken; or by some other such close and indirect admonition, handsomely and civilly to tell him of it.
I assert, then, that in the wondrous bodily whiteness of the bird chiefly lurks the secret of the spell; a truth the more evinced in this, that by a solecism of terms there are birds called grey albatrosses; and these I have frequently seen, but never with such emotions as when I beheld the Antarctic fowl.
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