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misinforˈmation
[mis-1 4.]
1. The action of misinforming or condition of being misinformed.
1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1009/1 A..riuer, which the Britons called Isk; Ptolomeus by misinformation nameth it Isaca. 1654in Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 60, I must now contradict..what by Lt Gen. Middleton's very unkind and unfriendly misinformation I mistold you in my last. 1668Clarendon Vindic. Tracts (1727) 37 Either by misinformation or negligence of the clerk..the county of Warwick was inserted. 1756Johnson K. of Prussia Wks. 1796 XII. 239 He declares himself..against the use of torture, and by some misinformation charges the English that they still retain it. 1800Asiat. Ann. Reg. 312/2 By the misinformation of our guides, we were led to Amergurh. 1861J. S. Mill Utilitarianism v. 85 Courts of law allow voluntary engagements to be set aside..sometimes on the ground of mere mistake, or misinformation.
2. Erroneous or incorrect information.
a1661B. Holyday Juvenal (1673) 262 According to the common misinformation, which the Romans had concerning the Jews. 1743T. Birch Life Boyle B.'s Wks. 1772 I. p. cvi, Not only our weather-glasses, but likewise our senses, may give us misinformation about cold. 1846J. W. Croker in C. Papers 22 Aug. (1884), Lord George is again under some misinformation. 1901Kipling Kim vii. 163 He was, by virtue of his office, a bureau of misinformation.
†b. With a and pl. Obs.
1627Lorne in Willcock Gt. Marquess (1902) App. iii. 355 Whom they have incensed agains me by their misinformations. c1640J. Smyth Lives Berkeleys (1883–5) II. 407 A misinformation of those that waited in his sicknes. 1788Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 63 It says that Congress removed to Hartford, but this is a misinformation. |