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Definition of Miscounts
1. miscount [v] - See also: miscount
Lexicographical Neighbors of Miscounts
Literary usage of Miscounts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1891)
"Every game, especially, every exciting one, has its own temptation to cheat ;
and long records of miscounts in tallies, moving balls in croquet, ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"... a figure which would have been reversed by deliberate miscounts in a few
states, or perhaps even by a more accurate count. On the other hand, ..."
3. The Principles of Judicial Proof: As Given by Logic, Psychology, and General by John Henry Wigmore (1913)
"Every game, especially every exciting one, has its own temptation to cheat; and
long records of miscounts in tallies, moving balls in croquet, ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1844)
"... (passengers ;) but being repeatedly called, he miscounts, is very much vexed
at the interruption, and expresses his displeasure in no measured terms. ..."
5. Sunshine and shadow in New York by Matthew Hale Smith (1869)
"He is fined if he miscounts the money, or gives the •wrong change. HIS SHREWDNESS
AND TACT. He has always kept in advance of the age. ..."
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