Definition of Misemphasis

1. [n -PHASES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Misemphasis

miseating
miseats
misedit
misedited
misediting
misedition
miseditions
misedits
miseducate
miseducated
miseducates
miseducating
miseducation
miseducations
misemphases
misemphasis (current term)
misemphasize
misemphasized
misemphasizes
misemphasizing
misemploy
misemployed
misemploying
misemployment
misemployments
misemploys
misencode
misencoded
misencodes
misencoding

Literary usage of Misemphasis

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

1. Educational Review by Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew, Charles Alexander Nelson (1901)
"Secondly, faculties and a large part of the general public have condemned the whole subject of elocution because of the misjudgment and misemphasis of some ..."

2. Pain, Pleasure, and æsthetics: An Essay Concerning the Psychology of Pain by Henry Rutgers Marshall (1894)
"In the creative representations of man, however, nothing is easier than to produce such misemphasis of relations, and such unnaturalness that ugliness in ..."

3. Æsthetic Principles by Henry Rutgers Marshall (1895)
"duce such misemphasis of relations, and such unnaturalness that ugliness in whole or in part is induced. Even more delicate are the relations of colours. ..."

4. Pain, Pleasure, and æsthetics: An Essay Concerning the Psychology of Pain by Henry Rutgers Marshall (1894)
"... however, nothing is easier than to produce such misemphasis of relations, and such unnaturalness that ugliness in whole or in part is induced. ..."

5. Aesthetic Principles by Henry Rutgers Marshall (1895)
"duce such misemphasis of relations, and such unnaturalness that ugliness in whole or in part is induced. Even more delicate are the relations of colours. ..."

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