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Definition of Misconstruing
1. misconstrue [v] - See also: misconstrue
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misconstruing
Literary usage of Misconstruing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1890)
"Or for misconstruing extent of public powers — sec. 953. 7. Or, without a statute
creating it, for buildings demolished to prevent ..."
2. 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 ..."
3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"... but also pardoned and remitted to you the crimes of leasing making and
misconstruing his majesty's and his parliament's proceedings against the very ..."
4. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1810)
"... effect this may have amongst the people : And therefore the acts of parliament
that were to guard against the misconstruing of his majesty's government, ..."
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