ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Solecist

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Solecist is a noun meaning (obsolete, rare) One who commits a solecism.

Meaning

(obsolete, rare) One who commits a solecism.

More Meanings

  1. (obsolete, rare) Having the characteristics of a solecism.

Example Sentences

[…] is another solecist quotation.
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.
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?
Let 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.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include soler, soliloquiser, soliloquizer, solere, sologamist, sacrileger.

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