2. Noun. A colloquial term, utterance, etc.; a colloquialism. ¹
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Definition of Colloquiality
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colloquiality
Literary usage of Colloquiality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paradise Lost by John Milton, Egerton Brydges (1851)
"Plain as the style is, it never sinks into colloquiality or the language of
business: he had kept his genius aloof from his daily occupation, and suffered ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1874)
"And, withal, such letters are the perfection of refined colloquiality. ¡Those of
the late Miss Mitford carried the carelessness of implicit confidence to an ..."
3. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"Howells, summarizing Mark Twain's gifts (1901), has written: He is apt to burlesque
the lighter colloquiality, and it is only in the more serious and most ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1811)
"... (with whom a familiarity and colloquiality of expression will form a
recommendation,) we should animadvert on i variety of inelegant phrase* which occur ..."
5. Byron and Byronism in America by William Ellery Leonard (1905)
"The real mastercraft in the nonchalant ease and colloquiality of Don Juan was in
the same way, as observed by Legare, all too little ap- ..."
6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"... effective situations, but they are miserably deficient in wit, sentiment, or
even a decent sprightliness in the colloquiality of the dramatis personal. ..."
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