Meanings
plural solecists
- obsoleterareOne who commits a solecism.
Too often is the college graduate a solecist through her ignorance of the customs and usages of that class whose life is made up of the minutiae of politeness.
1890, The Alpha Phi Quarterly2 more examples
Shall a noble writer, and an inspired noble writer, be called a solecist, and barbarian, for giving a new turn to a word so agreeable to the analogy and genius of the Greek tongue?
1725, Anthony Blackwall, The Sacred Classics Defended And IllustratedLet me, therefore, urge you, if you ever feel condemned by such yielding, to become a solecist and wilfully and determinately break those laws of society that your conscience can not approve.
1887, The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health
comparative more solecist · superlative most solecist
- obsoleterareHaving the characteristics of a solecism.
[…] is another solecist quotation.
2001, Scripta Classica Israelica
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