noun
definition
An erroneous or improper usage.
definition
(grammar) Error in the use of language.
definition
A faux pas or breach of etiquette; a transgression against the norms of expected behavior.
Examples of solecisms in a Sentence
The Gospel and the First Epistle are written in correct and flowing Greek, and there is not a barbarism, a solecism, or a provincialism in them; whereas the Greek of the Apocalypse is inaccurate, disfigured by unusual or foreign words and even at times by solecisms."
He himself is said to have been a student of Greek literature, and to have written a history of the Marsian war in Greek, inserting solecisms to show that he was a Roman.
I'm sure such off-message solecisms would not occur under improved modern media manipulation.
I 'm sure such off-message solecisms would not occur under improved modern media manipulation.
He and the craftsmen of the school he established completely refute the theory that the anatomical solecisms commonly seen in the works of Japanese sculptors are due to faulty observation.