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▪ I. misˈquote, v.
[mis-1 1.]
trans. To quote incorrectly.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, v. ii. 13 Looke how we can, or sad or merrily, Interpretation will misquote our lookes. 1699Collier Def. Short View 36 Because I Misquoted Wasting Air, for Wafting Air. 1771Junius Lett. lxi. 316 You answer..by misquoting his words, and mistating his propositions. 1835Lytton Rienzi i. i, They..misquote Latin over their cups. 1891Law Times XCII. 18/1 Mr. Besant..accused Mr. Willis of intentionally misquoting him.
absol.1809Byron Bards & Rev. 66 With just enough of learning to misquote.
So misˈquoter; misˈquoting vbl. n.
1673[R. Leigh] Transp. Reh. 147 His disingenuity is visible in his..misquoting of Thorndikes passage of Schism. 1830Blackw. Mag. XXVIII. 894 We are sad misquoters.
▪ II. misˈquote, n.
[mis-1 4.]
An incorrect quotation, a misquotation.
1855J. A. Symonds Let. Sept. (1967) I. 61 How very kind of M. de Condolle it was to lend Mdlle the three missquotes. a1953E. O'Neill Touch of Poet (1957) i. 30 Disdainfully, emphasizing his misquote of the line from Byron. 1968C. M. Vines Little Nut-Brown Man ix. 149 ‘Preferred not to’ had a different nuance from ‘was not well enough to’..it seemed a curious misquote. 1974Daily Tel. 21 Oct. 16 Mr Heath made little attempt to correct the misquotes and inaccurate statements made by various Labour politicians. |