“Uneath may she endure the flinty street,
To tread them with her tender feeling feet.”—Shakspeare.
Uneath is now obsolete, and may therefore be deemed a barbarism.
“In northern clime, a val’rous knight
Did whilom kill his bear in fight,
And wound a fiddler.”—Hudibras.
Whilom is now entirely disused. The adverbs whilere, erst, and perhaps also anon, may be ranked in the class of barbarisms.
“And this attention gives ease to the person, because the clothes appear unstudily graceful.”—Wollstonecraft’s Original Stories. The word unstudily is barbarous, and its mode of derivation contrary to analogy.
SOLECISM.
“Use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake, and thine often infirmities.” Often, an adverb, is here improperly used as an adjective, in accordance with the substantive “infirmities.” It ought to be “thy frequent infirmities.”