Definition of Misplacing

1. Verb. (present participle of misplace) ¹

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Definition of Misplacing

1. misplace [v] - See also: misplace

Lexicographical Neighbors of Misplacing

mispersuading
mispersuasion
mispersuasions
misphrase
misphrased
misphrases
misphrasing
mispickel
mispickels
misplace
misplaced
misplaced modifier
misplacement
misplacements
misplaces
misplacing (current term)
misplan
misplanned
misplanning
misplans
misplant
misplanted
misplanting
misplants
misplay
misplayed
misplaying
misplays
misplead
mispleaded

Literary usage of Misplacing

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

1. The Orthoëpist: A Pronouncing Manual Containing about Three Thousand Five by Alfred Ayres, Thomas Embley Osmun (1881)
"... the misplacing of an accent. billet-doux (Fr.)—be'ya'do'. The plural (billets-doux) is pronounced, in French, precisely like the singular. bi-en'ni-al, ..."

2. The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most by Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott (1810)
"ON THE misplacing OF ONE OF THE ORNAMENTS IN COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. [From the same, Oct. 13. ... misplacing ..."

3. The Covent Garden Journal by John Joseph Stockdale (1810)
"On (he misplacing one of the Ornaments in Covent Garden Theatre. (Morning Chronicle, Oct. 14.) SMIRKE and KEMBLE we see, In their fondness for show, ..."

4. Between the Lines: Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After by Henry Bascom Smith (1911)
"The great fraud attempted in the Presidential election of 1864, wherein the misplacing of a single letter led ..."

5. A help for English readers to understand mis-translated passages in our Bible by John Hale Murray (1881)
"misplacing AND HENCE MISCONSTRUING PASSAGES. FROM misplacing words of the originals, as to the proper order for construing the sense, translators have often ..."

6. The Select Works of Archbishop Leighton: Prepared for the Practical Use of by Robert Leighton, George Barrell Cheever (1832)
"The direction here e;iven, corrects the misplacing of this diligence, and addresses it right: Let it not be of the outward man in plaiting, fyc. ..."

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