misquoten.
/ˈmɪsˌkwəʊt/, U.S. /ˈmɪsˌkwoʊt/ An incorrect quotation, a misquotation.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > incorrect information > [noun] > incorrect quotation > instance of
misquotation1836
misquote1855
1855 J. A. Symonds Let. Sept. (1967) I. 61 How very kind of M. de Condolle it was to lend Mdlle the three missquotes.
a1953 E. O'Neill Touch of Poet (1957) i. 30 Disdainfully, emphasizing his misquote of the line from Byron.
1974 Daily Tel. 21 Oct. 16 Mr Heath made little attempt to correct the misquotes and inaccurate statements made by various Labour politicians.
1991 N.Y. Times 15 Sept. i. 24/3 When Robert Maxwell was concluding negotiations to buy the Daily News earlier this year, he explained matters with a revealing misquote.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
misquotev.
/ˌmɪsˈkwəʊt/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈkwoʊt/ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > incorrect information > report or state wrongly [verb (transitive)] > say or quote incorrectly
missayc1325
misrehearse1533
misquote1598
miscite1605
misrepeat1615
misvoucha1626
misplead1676
misgivea1713
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. ii. 13 Looke how we can, or sad or merely, Interpretation will misquote our lookes. View more context for this quotation
2. transitive. To quote (words, a person, etc.) incorrectly or inaccurately. Also intransitive.
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1673 [see misquoting n. at Derivatives].
1699 J. Collier Def. Short View Eng. Stage 36 Because I Misquoted Wasting Air, for Wafting Air.
1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lxi. 281 You answer..by misquoting his words, and mistating his propositions.
1799 F. Reynolds Laugh when you Can i. 6 Dorothy. As your own Artemisia says, ‘his name is never utter'd but you feel the most tumultuous animation!’ Miss Gloomly. Animation!—agitation, child—will you for ever misquote me!
1809 Ld. Byron Eng. Bards & Sc. Reviewers 66 With just enough of learning to misquote.
1814 T. Jefferson Let. 13 June in Writings (1984) 1339 Perhaps I may misquote him, it being fifty years since I read his book.
1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. i. i. 7 They..misquote Latin over their cups.
1891 Law Times 92 18/1 Mr. Besant..accused Mr. Willis of intentionally misquoting him.
1966 S. J. Perelman Chicken Inspector No. 23 81 I glibly misquoted clerihews culled from the New Statesman competitions.
1992 Crafts Mar. 41/2 The line as Bayley misquotes it, is the metrical equivalent of a chair with one leg missing.
Derivatives
misˈquoted adj.
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1853 Harper's Mag. Mar. 545/1 She..flung her arms around the man's neck, and murmured some misquoted passages about a prodigal son.
1999 G. Greer Whole Woman 292 No statement in The Female Eunuch caused more derision and amazement than the sentence, almost always misquoted, ‘Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.’
misˈquoter n.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > incorrect information > [noun] > incorrect quotation > one who misquotes
misquoter1830
1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 28 894 We are sad misquoters.
1927 Sunday at Home Jan. 216/1 The hurried journalist is a great misquoter and a great misattributor too.
misˈquoting n.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > incorrect information > [noun] > incorrect quotation
misciting1609
misquotation1612
mis-citation1634
misquoting1673
1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 147 His disingenuity is visible in his..misquoting of Thorndikes passage of Schism.
1872 Galaxy Nov. 682/2 The misquoting of Scripture to suit their purposes.
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