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Definition of Misapprehension
1. Noun. An understanding of something that is not correct. "There must be some misunderstanding--I don't have a sister"
Generic synonyms: Misconception
Derivative terms: Misapprehend, Mistake, Misunderstand
Definition of Misapprehension
1. n. A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.
Definition of Misapprehension
1. Noun. a failure to understand something; an illusion, misconception or misunderstanding ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misapprehension
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misapprehension
Literary usage of Misapprehension
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Railways: Embracing Corporations, Eminent Domain, Contracts by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1873)
"... misapprehension of his relation to it. And what made this case specially
aggravating to the plaintiffs was, that, in the language of Mr. Justice Field, ..."
2. Relation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Slavery by Charles King Whipple (1861)
"To prevent all misapprehension, it should be stated at the outset; — First, ...
To prevent the possibility of misapprehension, it is farther resolved, ..."
3. A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws; Or, Private International Law by Francis Wharton (1906)
"Early English and American dicta indefinite, and based on misapprehension of
terms.—If we examine closely the cases on this point in English and American ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"He undertook to stop that current, and in a course of public addresses in the
larger cities of that country, he corrected the popular misapprehension of the ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"the reason that a party should not be affected by statements which may he attributed
to a misapprehension of his legal right." 22 CJ p. 298, g 325. ..."
6. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America by Henry Wilson (1877)
"Southern contempt — Mutual misapprehension. — Jefferson Davis's Proclamation.
— Letters of marque. — Blockade. — Destruction of American commerce. ..."
7. Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill (1899)
"of actions done from the motive of duty, and in direct obedience to principle ;
it is a misapprehension of the utilitarian mode of thought, to conceive it ..."
8. Francis Parkman's Works by Francis Parkman (1906)
"misapprehension CONCERNING THEM. BY the plan which the Duke of Cumberland had
ordained and Braddock had announced in the Council at Alexandria, ..."
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