Definition of Mishearing

1. Verb. (present participle of mishear) ¹

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Definition of Mishearing

1. mishear [v] - See also: mishear

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mishearing

mishandlers
mishandles
mishandling
mishandlings
mishanter
mishanters
mishap
mishapped
mishappen
mishappy
mishaps
mishapt
mishcup
mishear
misheard
mishearing
mishears
mishegaas
mishegas
mishegoss
mishmash
mishmashes
mishmee
mishmees
mishmi
mishmis
mishmosh

Literary usage of Mishearing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. ... An Essay Toward the Critical Text of the A-version of "Piers the Plowman by Thomas Albert Knott, William Langland (1915)
"Then there are errors due to mis-seeing, or to mishearing, or to purely mechanical ... The so-called "errors of mishearing" might occur in one of two ways. ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1889)
"In the same way he explains the mishearing of words attributed to ... In the " sound- blindness" experiments the mishearing is not entirely at random ..."

3. Shakespeare and shorthand [a paper]. by Matthias Levy (1884)
"As an instance of mishearing, in " The Island Princess" (Beaumont and Fletcher) we read, " We are all mere martins." The word " martins" puzzled the editors ..."

4. The Information Universe: Issues in Informing Science and Information by Informing Science Institute, Eli Cohen, Ed. (2006)
"These variations mainly arise from misreading or mishearing, by either a human or an ... Where the phonemes of the name are modified, eg through mishearing, ..."

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