2. Verb. (third-person singular of misnomer) ¹
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Definition of Misnomers
1. misnomer [n] - See also: misnomer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misnomers
Literary usage of Misnomers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook on the Construction and Interpretation of the Laws by Henry Campbell Black (1911)
""three" was substituted by mistake for "two," yet the court could not construe
away the plain words of the law.80 EFFECT OF MISDESCRIPTIONS AND misnomers 59 ..."
2. Walker's Errors in Civil Proceedings: Being the Errors in Civil Proceedings by William Slee Walker (1917)
"misnomers. (o) Name of one of infant defendants in a suit for the construction
of a will -wrongly stated in the ..."
3. Retrospections of the Stage by John Bernard (1832)
"misnomers.—Misapprehensions.—The Alderman's toast. 1775.—London.—Strictures on
the first performance of " The Rivals."—Cause of the first night's failure. ..."
4. Popular Fallacies by Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann (1908)
"SOME misnomers. Many of our readers probably live in the NW district of London;
if so, they will know Harrington Square. Now, a square has usually four ..."
5. The White Man's Grave: A Visit to Sierra Leone, in 1834 by F. Harrison Rankin (1836)
"Canoe Voyages—their object.—Idea of Riches —Question of their impoverishing the
Colony.— Kroo-town.—District of Bachelors—its silence. —misnomers. ..."
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