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English
Etymology
See inconcinnous.
Adjective
inconcinne (comparative more inconcinne, superlative most inconcinne)
- (obsolete) dissimilar; incongruous; unsuitable
1660, Henry More, An Explanation of the grand Mystery of Godliness, page 183:You see by what small strings the applications of these four Beasts are tied to these four Visions hitherto, to omit what is very inconcinne, the breaking the order they were first named in, ( chap.4. ver. 7.) the first a Lion, the second an Oxe, the third a Nab, the fourth an Eagle.
2012, Joshua Cohen, Four New Messages:He could invent a fictional restaurant for you to bite your burger at but any fictional restaurant would be, like Nomenex, a worthless simulant or inconcinne imitation, a placebic generic.
2018, Gunther Martin, Euripides, "Ion": Edition and Commentary, page 309:Xuthus' exit has sharpness and rhetorical wit, with the inconcinne construction making the second line a drastic, even sarcastic aprosdoketon.