She held this to be a solecism; as pitiful an ambition at cards as alliteration is in authorship.

This confusion of tenses, this grand solecism of two presents, is in a degree common to all postage.

The fallacy about models is seen at once if we ask this simple question: Will the practice of a great writer justify a solecism in grammar or a confusion in logic?

And he adds, farther on, in the course of the discussion: "The question now under consideration is not whether it is ever right to do wrong, which is a solecism; nor is the question whether it is ever right to lie; but rather what constitutes a lie.

Now it is true that vos, applied to an equal, would have been a solecism; but it is also true that it was the invariable form employed by the sovereign, even when addressing a grandee or a prince of the Church.

It would be a solecism in language to say that any portion of these is not included in the whole.

From Soli, on account of the bad Greek spoken by its inhabitants, came the term "solecism."

It was a most able, candid, closely argued, and philosophical exposure of that unprincipled transaction; but for this very reason it was a solecism in the place where it was delivered.

To represent by the same word, and without figure, property, and the owner of that property, is a solecism.

The torpedoists resorted to severe measures, but with a distinctly useful purpose in view, having bound the ship hand and foot, so to speak, in such a way that her name became a solecism.

Sometimes, in thus heightening or lowering the object of his conception, the writer falls into a catachresis, solecism, or abuse of the grammatical degrees; as, "Mustard-seedwhich is less than all the seeds that be in the earth.

You was is an enormous solecism, and yet authors of the first rank have inadvertently fallen into it.

This usage, however it may seem to involve a solecism, is established by that authority against which the mere grammarian has scarcely a right to remonstrate.

Our poets have very often adopted the former solecism, to accommodate their measure, or to avoid the harshness of the old verb in the second person singular: as, "Thy heart is yet blameless, O fly while you may!"Queen's Wake, p. 46.

The phrase, "omitting to insert," appears to me a downright solecism; and the pronoun their is ambiguous, because there are well-known names both for the men and for their labours, and he ought not to have omitted either species wholly, as he did.

And as to the equivalence spoken of in the same rule, such an expression as, "He did not say nothing," is in fact only a vulgar solecism, take it as you will; whether for, "He did not say anything," or for, "He did say something."

And it is manifestly this, and not time, that is intended by the false phraseology above;"a form of speech handed down by the best writers, but lately accused, I think with justice, of solecism.

But the other phraseology, even as it stands in Churchill's explanations, is a solecism still; nor can any resolution which supposes never to be here an adverb of time, be otherwise.

But, according to Critical Note 4th, "A comparison is a form of speech which requires some similarity or common property in the things compared; without which, it becomes a solecism."

This figure borders closely upon solecism; and, for the stability of the language, it should be sparingly indulged.

But care should be taken lest it produce ambiguity or obscurity, absurdity or solecism.

" "I guess," answered Pepperill laconically, indulging in his only frequent solecism, "that you wouldn't offer to plead to manslaughter unless you felt pretty sure your client was going to the chair!

The Jacobins are decidedly adverse to it; and it is a sort of revolutionary solecism, that those who boast of having been the original destroyers of despotism, are now the advocates of arbitrary imprisonment, and restraints on the freedom of the press.

Instead of the beautiful language of the original, there is solecism and barbarous English.

That which is perfect is complete in all its parts, and, by a deficiency in any portion of its constituent materials, it becomes not less perfect, (which expression would be a solecism in grammar,) but at once by the deficiency ceases to be perfect at allit then becomes imperfect.