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a correct expression that takes the place of a popular but incorrect expression
he preferred his erroneous but pleasing mumpsimus to the correct sumpsimus
How To Use sumpsimus In A Sentence
- he preferred his erroneous but pleasing mumpsimus to the correct sumpsimus
- But Edward is a hotter little reformist than Elizabeth, who abides strictly by her father's middle way and says'taking Henry's words from his last speech to Parliament'that she will be neither 'mumpsimus' nor 'sumpsimus' but worship God without argument. Ill Met By Moonlight
