Meanings
- archaicArchaic spelling of lapsus linguae.
Years afterwards I had the honor of meeting the great admiral and to my astonishment and confusion he asked me if I had ever procured that set of lapsus linguæ for my sister.
1917, James Morris Morgan, chapter II, in Recollections of a Rebel Reefer, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 181 more example
In view of the only too obvious and universally acknowledged fact that a man’s general trend of conversation, like his deeds, expresses his character, it is amusing to see with what incredulity persons will often receive the statement that the finer details of speech and action (such as ‘slips of the tongue’ and the previously mentioned ‘slips of the pen’) are significant as well. A man once even argued with me that the manner of a handshake possessed no significance. And lapsus linguæ are often accounted one of the pet absurdities of the Freudians.
1915, Edwin B[issell] Holt, “The Doctrine of the ‘Wish’”, in The Freudian Wish and Its Place in Ethics, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, pages 35–36
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