2. Adjective. Having false ideas; misleading. ¹
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Definition of Misconceiving
1. misconceive [v] - See also: misconceive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misconceiving
Literary usage of Misconceiving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Theological and Literary Journal (1859)
"The effects of their misconceiving and perverting the truth are no more to be
charged to the truth itself, than the errors that prevail in respect to the ..."
2. The Philosophy of Unbelief in Morals and Religion: As Discoverable in the by Herman Hooker (1850)
"... how acquired—Standard of comparison—Moral attributes of the Deity—Danger of
misconceiving them—Proneness to error from the corruption of human ..."
3. The Sounds and Inflections of the Greek Dialects by Herbert Weir Smyth (1894)
"Some, misconceiving the spirit of a Greek historian and the atmosphere of Ionic
prose, have regarded ... Others, misconceiving the words of Suidas (ev TÍ; ..."
4. Studies in Humanism by Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller (1907)
"It had begun by misconceiving the ' thought - process,' which was to be its clue to
... It had begun, that is, by misconceiving the function of abstraction. ..."
5. A Treatise on the Rules of the Law of Personal Succession, in the Different by David Robertson (1836)
"... but either recollecting or conceiving that with respect to the thirty-nine
shares, or misconceiving that with respect to the ..."
6. Reports of Cases Decided in the House of Lords, Upon Appeal from Scotland by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, John Craigie, John Shaw Stewart, Thomas S. Paton (1854)
"... but either recollecting, or conceiving that, with respect to the 39 shares;
or misconceiving that with respect to the 39 shares, his son had, ..."
7. The Modern Language Quarterly by Walter Wilson Greg (1901)
"Which I am bold to tell your Lordship, lest in such place, such misconceiving,
might disadvantage me much. I should be thought to forsake, either my own ..."
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