misprision
- noun
- /ˈmɪsprɪʒən/
- Archaic
:
malentendido
- Her misprision of the report led to a serious misunderstanding among the team.
Examples
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Sedition, conspiracy, and misprision are about the only tools available to prevent (as opposed to react to) domestic terrorism.
Blog text (3) -
And relieve him of command, and no one can do the same to Obama, Panetta, or Hillary for the same reason that they impeached Nixon for malfeasance, misprisions, and derelictions of duty, and of their sworn oath of office.
Blog text (10) -
The article contained a significant misprision that altered the author's intended message.
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During the discussion, his misprision about the event's timeline confused everyone.
Synonyms
306
1.0
A wrong belief, calculation, or action
243
1.6
When someone does not understand something correctly and this causes a problem
53
3.3
A mistake that happens when someone confuses one thing with another
48
1.8
A mistake when one thing is thought to be another
24
4.9
A mistake in information or measurement
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4.1
A failure to share information clearly that causes misunderstanding
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5.8
An incorrect statement that gives the wrong facts
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6.8
A wrong idea about something
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6.0
A wrong understanding of something that leads to wrong conclusions
9
3.6
A wrong decision about a person or situation
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4.0
A wrong idea about what someone wrote or said
5
7.5
A wrong idea about what something means
3
7.5
A wrong idea someone has about something
1
8.3
A wrong idea about what someone said or meant
A wrong idea about what someone says or does
A failure to understand something correctly
A report that gives wrong information, often by mistake
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
misprision = mis + prision
The prefix 'mis-' signals a sense of error or wrongness, but the root 'prision' is not a productive modern English base, so the full meaning is not fully derivable by an average learner.
Etymology
Misprision comes from old parts: mis- 'wrong' and prise 'to take', the same root you see in surprise. So it originally meant a 'wrong taking' of words or facts, which is why it means an error or misunderstanding.