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
- (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
- solecists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include soler, soliloquiser, soliloquizer, solere, sologamist, sacrileger.
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