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Definition of Misforming
1. misform [v] - See also: misform
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misforming
Literary usage of Misforming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Orations from Homer to William McKinley by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1902)
"You are instructed from above; therefore you can safely labor to form the popular
mind, without danger of misforming it, and in your several spheres prove ..."
2. Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1905)
"... labor to form the popular mind, without danger of misforming it, and in your
several spheres prove yourselves safe guides and leaders of the people. ..."
3. Thompson on Sales of Stocks and Bonds by Milford James Thompson (1915)
"The effect of misnaming, misconstruing, misforming, or failing to execute or
perform any of such contracts, or of aiding or assisting others to do so after ..."
4. Life in Mind & Conduct: Studies of Organic in Human Nature by Henry Maudsley (1902)
"It is the source and sustenance of that formless longing which the imaginations
of men, labouring to shape in form and misforming, have translated into so ..."
5. The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D. ...: Sometime President of Corpus Christi by Thomas Jackson (1844)
"... rob God of his honour no less than the heathens or infidels do, without any
idol or image, without misforming or mis- picturing him in his attributes. ..."
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