solecism

IPA: sˈoʊɫɪsɪzʌm

noun

  • An erroneous or improper usage.
  • (grammar) Error in the use of language.
  • (by extension) A faux pas or breach of etiquette; a transgression against the norms of expected behavior.
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Examples of "solecism" in Sentences

  • Analogously, in the non-criminal spheres the worst solecism is to be different.
  • "SAT" a kind of solecism, one of those repetitive redundancies that repeats itself -- bad form for a test measuring verbal ability.
  • Again, to use our old solecism, that is the lesser part of the truth; the greater part, for men of religion, is that Jesus is of God, that He belongs to Him.
  • For what is called a solecism is nothing else than the putting of words together according to a different rule from that which those of our predecessors who spoke with any authority followed.
  • A second-place tie between two teams that each have first-place trophies to dust - Root Learning Inc. and the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library - resulted in a sudden-death runoff that ran to four words - "solecism," "jnana," diffa, and "issei," and Root hit pay dirt on
  • You may see, it is true, an earth-worm in a robin's beak, and may hear a thrush breaking a snail's shell; but these little things are, as it were, passed by with a kind of twinkle for apology, as by a well-bred man who does openly some little solecism which is too slight for direct mention, and which a meaner man might hide or avoid.
  • To some, any kind of solecism at all is offensive; to others, who consider themselves liberated, the essence of language lies in communication, however that may be construed as devoid of grammatical stringencies; to us, although rudimentary communication may have its virtues born of necessity, an essential part of communication remains the style with which information is transferred and the appropriateness of the style.
  • "It was thought," says Nashe, in his Quaternio, "a kind of solecism, and to savour of effeminacy, for a young gentleman in the flourishing time of his age to creep into a coach, and to shroud himself from wind and weather: our great delight was to out-brave the blustering boreas upon a great horse; to arm and prepare ourselves to go with Mars and Bellona into the field was our sport and pastime; coaches and caroches we left unto them for whom they were first invented, for ladies and gentlemen, and decrepit age and impotent people."
  • "It was thought," says Nashe, in his Quaternio, "a kind of solecism, and to savour of effeminacy, for a young gentleman in the flourishing time of his age to creep into a coach, and to shroud himself from wind and weather: our great delight was to outbrave the blustering Boreas upon a great horse; to arm and prepare ourselves to go with Mars and Bellona into the field, was our sport and pastime; coaches and caroches we left unto them for whom they were first invented, for ladies and gentlemen, and decrepit age and impotent people."

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