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Meanings of solecism in English
Usage of solecism in English
1
A dead State is a solecism, a contradiction in terms, an impossibility.
2
What is a suspension of existence, but a temporary annihilation!- Acompletesolecism!
3
Equite cannot exist without justice; society without justice is a solecism.
4
A Methodist pastor is a solecism; Methodism is a moving evangelism.
5
Not to have seen Chaumont in Totot chez Tata was held a solecism.
6
One custom, however, prevails, which I looked upon as a solecism in politeness.
7
He apologized profusely to Stirling for having committed such a solecism.
8
Engaged persons should be careful not to commit this conspicuous solecism.
9
Post-modernist chatterati were left in agonies of indecision about which solecism was worse.
10
But what to do with Scotland, with its covenanted king, a solecism incarnate?
11
She was exceedingly anxious not to commit any social solecism.
12
Whatever it did was unpardonable, and we had to be informed of the solecism.
13
He was an antithesis in human nature-oreven a solecism.
14
It would have been a gross solecism to knock, but Simon performed the equivalent.
15
However, it was easy to ignore a rich man's solecism.
16
The treatment of solecism and barbarism in grammar corresponded to that of fallacies in logic.
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