What does inconcinne mean?
Inconcinne means (obsolete) dissimilar; incongruous; unsuitable.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(obsolete) dissimilar; incongruous; unsuitable.
You see by what small strings the applications of these four Beasts are tied to these four Visions hitherto, to omit what is very inconcinne, the breaking the order they were first named in, ( chap.4. ver. 7.) the first a Lion, the second an Oxe, the third a Nab, the fourth an Eagle.
He could invent a fictional restaurant for you to bite your burger at but any fictional restaurant would be, like Nomenex, a worthless simulant or inconcinne imitation, a placebic generic.
Xuthus' exit has sharpness and rhetorical wit, with the inconcinne construction making the second line a drastic, even sarcastic aprosdoketon.
Use inconcinne when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Inconcinne means (obsolete) dissimilar; incongruous; unsuitable.
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You see by what small strings the applications of these four Beasts are tied to these four Visions hitherto, to omit what is very inconcinne, the breaking the order they were first named in, ( chap.4. ver. 7.) the first a Lion, the second an Oxe, the third a Nab, the fourth an Eagle.
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