Meanings
nounmiscollocation (countable and uncountable, plural miscollocations)
plural miscollocations
- countableuncountableWrong collocation.
Miscollocation or dislocation of related words disturbed the whole sense; its least effect was to give no sense, often it gave a dangerous sense.
1840, Thomas De Quincey, “Style”, in Critical Suggestions on Style and Rhetoric with German Tales and Other Narrative Papers (De Quincey’s Works; XI), London: James Hogg & Sons, published 1859, →OCLC, part I, page 195
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