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Definition of Misspeaks
1. misspeak [v] - See also: misspeak
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misspeaks
Literary usage of Misspeaks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dreams and Myths: A Study in Race Psychology by Karl Abraham (1913)
"The insane furnish examples of neologisms of a quite similar kind.28 The normal
man also does the same thing while awake when he " misspeaks. ..."
2. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1913)
"The insane furnish examples of neologisms of a quite similar kind.23 The normal
man also does the same thing while awake when he " misspeaks. ..."
3. The Second Coming of Christ, and the Resurrection: Showing by an Appeal to by Ephraim Currier (1841)
"misspeaks as if it was a thing that would take place while some of them should
live, and not in 1843, or 2843, or any such vastly distant time. ..."
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