colloquiality
Americannoun
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the state or quality of being colloquial.
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a colloquial style, usage, or expression.
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I have a tendency towards too great colloquiality, I know, and I trust your sense of English better than any man's in the country.
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William
Of a correspondent's "strictures on my English" he writes: "I have a tendency towards too great colloquiality."
From The Critical Game by Macy, John Albert
The last expresses, with a sublime colloquiality in which the commonest words of every-day parlance seem cut anew; and are made to shine with a fresh and novel lustre, the idea and destiny of America.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various
He should have bespoken that kindred presence in halting colloquialities, yet the greeting he gave flowed from him in the form of a thought untranslated into any sluggish medium of language.
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
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