good usage

noun

(in a language) standard, prescribed, or acceptable usage of words or phrases:
Your sentence violates the rules of good usage.

The variety in the arrangement of the parts of a sentence that has been sanctioned by good usage is great, yet there are limits.

I have good usage, plenty of good meat, and clothes with easy work.

The city also was now better inhabited than ever, through the good usage of the governor to the Moors.

It is good literature when it is expressed plastically, and in accordance with a good usage of its time.

Free expression within the lines of good usage should have widest range.

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