单词 | misconstruction |
释义 | misconstructionn. 1. The action or an act of misconstruing words or actions; misinterpretation. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > [noun] mistakinga1400 misconceivinga1425 misunderstandingc1443 misweening1493 misknowledgea1500 misconstructiona1535 misconstruinga1535 misinterpreting1563 misinterpretation1576 mispersuasion1593 misconceit1596 a mistake of1614 misconcept1616 misinference1627 misinferring1627 misapprehension1629 misconception1658 misrendering1661 misapprehending1702 misperception1722 misintelligence1779 misthinking1788 misreading1832 miscomprehension1843 criss-cross1877 misconstrual1950 a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 39/1 Sometime a thing right wel intended, our misconstruccion turneth vnto worse. 1596 A. Copley Fig for Fortune 41 It is thy name defam'd among the just Thy life bely'd through misconstruction. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iii. 112 It pleas'd the King..to strike at me vpon his misconstruction . View more context for this quotation 1662 Bk. Common Prayer Pref. Words and phrases..liable to misconstruction. 1677 A. Horneck Great Law Consideration (1704) ii. 58 Misconstructions of the ways of God. 1713 E. Ward Hist. Grand Rebellion I. 137 A misconstruction they are apt to make. 1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ 210 To rectify the misconstruction that had been put upon his words. 1846 Mirror of Lit. Sept. 119 Being well aware that misconstructions are apt to be placed on the projector of any new scheme. 1885 Law Times Rep. 52 675/1 The language..is open to misconstruction. 1907 T. S. Wotton Dict. Mus. Terms 185 Senza sordini is..an indication open to misconstruction in piano music of a certain date. 1981 R. Dawson Confucius ii. 22 This reinterpretation of the passage..amounts to a deliberate misconstruction of the lines for the purpose of using them as a moral tag. 1992 Matrix Fall 8/1 Was such misconstruction the result of simple oversight or of guile? 2008 J. Blythe Consumer Behaviour ii. 174 Mutual misconstruction occurs when the parties to the discussion are unable to translate their interpretations of self and other into a coherent vocabulary. 2. Faulty or bad construction. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > construction > poor construction or well-constructedness malconstruction1809 misconstruction1819 well-builtness1899 well-constructedness1975 1819 W. S. Rose Lett. from N. Italy II. vii. 21 Misconstructions and misconjugations allowed in the Tuscan and rejected in the Italian. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 67 Some misconstruction or misaffection of the cerebral organs. 1871 E. J. Goodspeed Hist. Great Fires Chicago xxv. 391 Owing to some misconstruction in the building one safe..fell into the street, and escaped being melted. 1910 W. Murison Eng. Composition 12 A frequent mis-construction appears in ‘A bullet hit a coin in his pocket, thus saving his life.’ What does saving agree with? Is it pocket, or coin, or bullet? 1961 E. Voegelin in Intent Toynbee's Hist. 193 The completed Study as a whole, and the last batch of volumes in particular, suffer..from severe misconstruction. 2007 J. K. Champion & M. Williams in H. Buchwald et al. Surg. Managem. Obesity xxi. 183/1 Intraoperative complications unique to the laparoscopic approach include staple-line bleeding,..and abdominal wall bleeding as well as pouch misconstruction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1535 |
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