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1- solecisms , especially in Late Latin texts.

2- She commits a lot of solecisms .

3- She flushed, as if he had caught her out in a social solecism .

4- No doubt there are those for whom embarrassing banalities and near-comical solecisms have a certain charm.

5- The solecisms and non-Classical usages occasionally found in late Latin texts also shed light on the spoken language.

6- Edward explained that in order to encourage freedom of expression he preferred not to jump on every solecism .

7- One of the fascinating features of the Greek of Revelation is the large number of solecisms or ungrammatical expressions.

8- Urban graffiti, which include literary quotations, and low-quality inscriptions with misspellings and solecisms indicate casual literacy among non-elites.

9- Disraeli, then just twenty-three, did not move in high society, as the numerous solecisms in his book made obvious.

10- The site is marred by distracting background patterns and occasional solecisms (”Earth” of the New Sun; ”The” Doomsday Book), but Gersten’s tastes are wide ranging and he’s made an effort to cover many of the classics of the genre.

11- All seemed on the way back to normal or what, following President Harding’s great solecism , Americans were then calling normalcy. (After President Nixon’s departure in 1974, one lexicographer spoke of a return to normality.) In 1925, the decision was taken to return to the gold standard.

12- Its rearguard battle to discourage solecisms such as the use of ‘aggravate’ to mean ‘irritate’ and ‘decimate’ to mean ‘slaughter most of’ is to be abandoned.

13- And it’s not always easy to respect the author of The Maximus Poems , marred as they are on nearly every page by solecisms and gaucheries, by arbitrary coarseness in diction, punctuation, syntax, lineation.

14- The argument is a solecism ; but if Wallace showed his ingenuity in inventing it, Mr Malthus has not shown his judgment in adopting it.

15- Usually, no doubt, the audience shared the unstated assumptions, but even if they did not, it would have been a solecism to answer the question.

16- Nor is this all, but this solecism is corrected, and the oversight of the Apostle remedied, by the accidental insertion of the disputed passage from the margin of a translation; the sense of which, we are told, it embarrasses, while it contributes nothing to amend the grammatical structure!

17- Nay more, he omits them in such a manner as to create a gross solecism in his language, which is ultimately removed by the accidental insertion, as we are taught, of those witnesses, from a note in his margin.

18- Gross solecisms in the grammatical structure, palpable oversights in the texture of the sense, cannot be ascribed to the inspired writers.

19- Before Charles could give an order to his platoon, in which he could identify himself with them in such a disagreeable manoeuvre, the new Company Commander continued to pursue the military solecism of humiliating an officer in front of his own command.

20- To her credit, whatever other social solecisms the inexperienced Peggy might have committed during their stay in Little Tuckett, she had never betrayed a confidence.

21- All the aerodynamic solecisms of the carburettor manifold were thus inherited, and volumetric efficiency may accordingly be no higher, as it is often the case that manifold design handicapped airflow more severely than the carburettor venturi.

22- Section 22 and s23 of the Arbitration Act 1950 preserve the right to apply to the court to set aside an award on the ground of misconduct by the arbitrator: misconduct sometimes amounts to what appear to be no more than minor procedural solecisms .

23- But the situation was complex and ever-changing and it is a pity that Applebaum has repeated a solecism that has become widespread since the fall of communism in Europe.

24- Slater did a marvellous job, and I think this should be asserted firmly, now that both he and Britten are dead, since the composer was given to accusing his collaborator, in later days, of penning many solecisms in the text of Peter Grimes.

25- Typically such definitions of the term “howler” or “boner” do not specify the mode of the error; a howler could be a solecism , a malapropism, or simply a spectacular, usually compact, demonstration of misunderstanding, illogic, or outright ignorance.

26- Previously named after the former BBC broadcaster David Coleman, who was adjudged particularly prone to such solecisms during his many sporting commentaries.

27- After pointing out errors and solecisms in Soutsos’ own language, Asopios went on to defend Korais’ general ‘simplifying’ approach, but with the addition of his own selection of archaisms.

28- The individuality is characterised by a different range of solecisms and by the borrowing of different words from Vulgar Latin or from the local vernacular.

29- Presumably Mr Newman’s mind was on his upcoming Bologna trip, maybe even on Risotto alla Vitale , or he would have swatted this vulgar solecism right out of the ground.

30- He also assisted boats floundering on the rocks using his knowledge of the area but said: “I committed the frightful solecism of not knowing which was port and which side was starboard””.

31- Despite his elevation of Pamela from maid to lady, a solecism that Jane Austen would never have committed, Richardson makes a much clearer distinction than she does between the genuine landed family and aspirants to that status from the middle class.

32- It is a solecism to style the Prime Minister or a Minister Right Honourable as they are not members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.

33- In the realism of Trimalchio’s dinner party, we are provided with informal that abounds in vulgarisms and solecisms which gives us insight to the unknown Roman proletariat.

34- Use of the prefix with the surname alone (“The Reverend Smith”) is considered a solecism in traditional usage: it would be as irregular as calling the person in question “The Well-Respected Smith”.

35- During rehearsals for the original production, Gilbert added a ballad for Captain Corcoran in which he urged his daughter to forget the common sailor with whom she is in love, because “at every step, he would commit solecisms that society would never pardon.

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