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ˌmisrepreˈsent, v.
[mis-1 1.]
1. trans. To represent improperly or imperfectly; to give a false representation or account of.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. ii. §49 Those..who had done them ill offices, and misrepresented their carriage to the King. 1677Gilpin Demonol. ii. ix. 390 Satan doth endeavour to misrepresent God to troubled Souls. 1726Swift Gulliver iii. viii, They had so horribly misrepresented the Meaning of those Authors to Posterity. 1846Wright Ess. Mid. Ages II. xiii. 87 Popular tradition generally misrepresents the actions, but not the character of its hero. 1879Froude Cæsar xxi. 352 He had been himself misrepresented to his countrymen.
absol.1671Milton Samson 124 This, this is he..Or do my eyes misrepresent? 1822Cobbett Weekly Reg. 9 Feb. 362 If I had misrepresented, why not prove it?
2. To fail to represent correctly or adequately as agent or official representative.
1860Mill Repr. Govt. (1865) 55 The constituencies to which most of the highly educated..persons..belong..are..either unrepresented or misrepresented.
So misrepreˈsented ppl. a., misˈrepresenting vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1688Pulpit-Sayings 14 Such, who pretend to be clear from the Imputation of Misrepresenting. 1699Collier Def. Short View 90 He understands the Art of Misrepresenting. 1817T. Chalmers in Mem. (1850) II. 140, I had previously read the misrepresented passage to Mr. Chalmers. 1887Pall Mall G. 28 Nov. 12/1 It [a company] can recover the purchase money from the misrepresenting vendors. |