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Definition of Solecist
1. n. One who commits a solecism.
Definition of Solecist
1. Noun. One who commits a solecism. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Solecist
1. one who solecizes [n -S] - See also: solecizes
Lexicographical Neighbors of Solecist
Literary usage of Solecist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1888)
"... his mind that the forbidden fruit may in an unguarded moment betray him into
uttering a shibboleth that will stamp him as a provincial and a solecist. ..."
2. A History of Classical Scholarship: From the Sixth Century B.C. to the End by John Edwin Sandys (1906)
"... (or solecist) is directed against grammarians who lapsed into solecisms, in
spite of a pedantic attention to correctness of style. ..."
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