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solecism SAW-luh-si-zehm noun ungrammatical speech; ungrammatical writing; something out of the norm 1926Dreads and DrollsThen you must change one of them or wait till another time to pay, for, in England, to pay in gold is a solecism only pardonable in a stranger.1932Brave New WorldA man so conventional, so scrupulously correct as the Director—and to commit so gross a solecism!1998Nimisha's ShipCertainly no hostess would commit the solecism of inviting both Vescuya and Rezalla to the same function.Labels: Aldous Huxley, Anne McCaffrey, Arthur Machen
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