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Definition of Misdirections
1. misdirection [n] - See also: misdirection
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misdirections
Literary usage of Misdirections
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mrs. Maybrick's Own Story: My Fifteen Lost Years by Florence Elizabeth Chandler Maybrick (1905)
"misdirections AS TO CAUSE OF DEATH On the first day of his summing-up, however, Mr.
Justice Stephen told the jury as to the law under which they were to ..."
2. The Patentee's Manual: A Treatise on the Law and Practice of Patents for by James Johnson (1890)
"... as where it contains positive misdirections as to the mode of operating, or
as to the materials to be employed, the patent will likewise be void. ..."
3. The Patentee's Manual: Being a Treatise on the Law and Practice of Letters by James Johnson (1884)
"Must not contain misdirections or misrepresentations. If the specification contains
language calculated to mislead as to an important part of the patented ..."
4. The Great Harmonia: Being a Philosophical Revelation of the Natural by Andrew Jackson Davis (1884)
"by this and correlative misdirections. But we need not spend our time in roaming
o'er this world's history, in quest of vices so unutterably sorrowful; ..."
5. The Great Harmonia: Being a Philosophical Revelation of the Natural by Andrew Jackson Davis (1884)
"Answer: from the misdirections of the love-principle, which lies at the basis of
all life and happiness. How came these misdirections ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of New South Wales by New South Wales Supreme Court (1873)
"Lastly, as to the alleged misdirections'. The conveyance from Thomas Potter ...
On the whole, I am of opinion that the alleged misdirections are not of ..."
7. Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God by Horace Bushnell (1880)
"There is no account to be made of these misdirections, till we bring into view
man as he is, a power capable of misdirecting himself and guilty in it, ..."
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