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Definition of Miscalls
1. miscall [v] - See also: miscall
Lexicographical Neighbors of Miscalls
Literary usage of Miscalls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1803)
"I iay miscalls honour ; for I would not be thought to say any thiog itI disparagement
of real honour ; that auxiliary of virtue, which, however' it may ..."
2. Colour-blindness and Colour-perception by Frederick William Edridge-Green (1891)
"The candidate is not to be regarded as having " failed" if he miscalls these tints,
... But if having named all the others correctly he miscalls these ..."
3. A Treatise on Aphasia and Other Speech Defects by H. Charlton Bastian (1898)
"He reads aloud writing and printing quite readily, but not infrequently omits
and miscalls words. He says that he has no difficulty in ..."
4. Essays on Some of the Modern Guides of English Thought in Matters of Faith by Richard Holt Hutton (1887)
"What he calls (miscalls, I think) the "secret of Jesus"— "miscalls," because the
secret of Jesus lay in the knowledge of His Father's love, ..."
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