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SOLECISM
Pronunciation: 'sāli`sizum
Matching Terms: Solecist, Solecistic, Solecistical, Solecistically
WordNet Dictionary
Definition: [n] a socially awkward or tactless act
Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, slip
See Also: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Definition:
\Sol"e*cism\, n.[F. sol['e]cisme, L. soloecismus, Gr.
soloikismo`s, fr. soloiki`zein to speak or write incorrectly,
fr. so`loikos speaking incorrectly, from the corruption of
the Attic dialect among the Athenian colonists of So`loi in
Cilicia.]
1. An impropriety or incongruity of language in the
combination of words or parts of a sentence; esp.,
deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules
of syntax.
A barbarism may be in one word; a solecism must be
of more. --Johnson.
2. Any inconsistency, unfitness, absurdity, or impropriety,
as in deeds or manners.
C[ae]sar, by dismissing his guards and retaining his
power, committed a dangerous solecism in politics.
--C.
Middleton.
The idea of having committed the slightest solecism
in politeness was agony to him. --Sir W.
Scott.
Syn: Barbarism; impropriety; absurdity.
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