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(), n.[F. solcisme, 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. Csar, 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. スポンサード リンク
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