Definition of Misrecollection

1. n. Erroneous or inaccurate recollection.

Definition of Misrecollection

1. Noun. Erroneous or inaccurate recollection. ¹

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Definition of Misrecollection

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Misrecollection

misrecite
misrecited
misrecites
misreciting
misreckon
misreckoned
misreckoning
misreckons
misrecognize
misrecognized
misrecognizes
misrecognizing
misrecollect
misrecollected
misrecollecting
misrecollection
misrecollections
misrecollects
misrecord
misrecorded
misrecording
misrecords
misrefer
misreference
misreferences
misreferred
misreferring
misrefers
misregard
misregister

Literary usage of Misrecollection

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

1. The Rules of Evidence: Stated and Discussed by John Appleton (1860)
"The statements made, deliberate, guarded, reduced to writing, signed by the witness, leave no room for misapprehension, or misrecollection of his memory. ..."

2. The American Jurist and Law Magazine (1843)
"The statements made, deliberate, guarded, reduced to writing, signed by the witness, leave no room for misapprehension, or misrecollection of his memory. ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"... or to assist the memory as to the amount of the respective credits, in case of misrecollection or dispute. B'k of Ky. v. Wistar, 2 Pet. 325. ..."

4. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1878)
"Whether this crude idea was vented by any member of Congress from ill-will to me, or merely from misunderstanding or misrecollection, I know not. ..."

5. The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including the Private as Well as the by Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow (1904)
"That the communication was erroneous is certain; whether from misapprehension or misrecollection, uncertain."—Writings of Madison, Vol. IV., 337. ..."

6. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1871)
"... the above writers, are fully satisfied that he never could have been guilty of the rudeness or harshness which a casual misrecollection imputes to him. ..."

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