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Definition of Mistraining
1. mistrain [v] - See also: mistrain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mistraining
Literary usage of Mistraining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mind (1902)
"... the right cultivation and conscious individual effort, after the child is old
enough to realize and throw off the shackles of childhood mistraining. ..."
2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1895)
"Addressing an audience in the main credulous, and prepared by long mistraining
to expect and to accept only marvellous revelations, the popular expositor of ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"To these latter, it is capable of mistraining as nothing else can. Parliament will
train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, ..."
4. Biennial Report by Colorado Dept. of Public Instruction, Colorado state teachers' association (1872)
""In a matter of punishment, practice brings to light that the choice of wise and
effective punishment is very .limited; whilst serious mental mistraining ..."
5. The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher: In Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1869)
"I knew a man proud and cultured, the child of religious associations and parentage,
himself skeptical by theological mistraining, who, going out into life, ..."
6. The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Beecher, Henry Ward (1871)
"I knew a man proud and cultured, the child of religious associations and parentage,
himself skeptical by theological mistraining, who, going out into life, ..."
7. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1878)
"The dog's quarrelsomeness comes in part from human mistraining ; he is taught
from a puppy to attack, pursue, seize, bite, fight, worry ; but also ' it is ..."
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