How To Use solecism In A Sentence
- The fundamental silliness of my article lies, however, not in its numerous solecisms but in the dubiousness of its central thesis and of the " reasoning’ adduced to support it.
- We must investigate what produces solecisms, and not merely adduce examples.
- Le jument est beau" was a solecism that could not longer be tolerated. Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest
- The English subtitles, on the other hand, are utterly inept - full of awkwardness and solecisms.
- 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. On Christian Doctrine, in Four Books
- Analogously, in the non-criminal spheres the worst solecism is to be different. Petty Totalitarianism and Its Consequences
- 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. Bracebridge Hall
- This is not supposed to be a list of clichés or solecisms.
- That's an ambitious enterprise and, regrettably, the work is let down from achieving such divine afflatus by sloppy editing and far too many solecisms.
- And solecisms such as calling the Orthodox liturgy a ‘mass’ are mildly distracting.
