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Definition of Inelegances
1. inelegance [n] - See also: inelegance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inelegances
Literary usage of Inelegances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Rhetoric by John Duncan Quackenbos (1896)
"EVERYDAY BARBARISMS, SOLECISMS, AND inelegances. Careless speaking or slovenly
writing is an Insult to the public; bad English is a crime. — GEORGE BAINTON. ..."
2. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"... we shall not be surprised at finding some inelegances and technical faults in
the legal theory which sums up the results of this protracted and complex ..."
3. The Bookman (1900)
"It is true that this standard, established by convention, is crude and imperfect,
and that many inelegances are painfully apparent ; but, at all events, ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"In a word, are subjection to animal instinct, egoism, falsehood, absolutely evil,
or are they merely "inelegances" ?—that is to say, things deprecated just ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1827)
"... take up the pen*—that (in various places) persons were long of finding or
learning—late of adhering to a cause, and similar inelegances ; and above all, ..."
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