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Definition of Miseducates
1. miseducate [v] - See also: miseducate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Miseducates
Literary usage of Miseducates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Theology for the Social Gospel by Walter Rauschenbusch (1917)
"... and wars, and so miseducates mankind that love and cooperation seem unworkable,
and men are taught to put their trust in coercive control by the strong ..."
2. Protectionism: The -ism which Teaches that Waste Makes Wealth by William Graham Sumner (1885)
"The truth is that protectionism demoralizes and miseducates a people (§§ 89, 153,
155). It deprives them of individual self-reliance and energy, ..."
3. The New Appreciation of the Bible: A Study of the Spiritual Outcome of by Willard Chamberlain Selleck (1906)
"Everything educates, or miseducates—the home, the school, the church, the street,
the newspaper, life, Nature. We do not expect the public school to ..."
4. We Women and Our Authors by Laura f. Mohr Hansson, Hermione Charlotte Ramsden (1899)
"... when she grows in herself, educates and miseducates herself in the loneliness
of her being, in that inner life which is made up of wishes, dreams, ..."
5. Modern Philanthropy: A Study of Efficient Appealing and Giving by William Harvey Allen (1912)
"One of these days somebody is going to give a million dollars in answer to a
letter like this. . . . Nothing miseducates people ..."
6. A Critical Review of American Politics by Charles Reemelin (1881)
"... run over in his mind the system we recommend, and he will find, that while
the one, now pursued, perplexes and miseducates the popular ..."
7. Letters on Reasoning by John Mackinnon Robertson (1905)
"... then, formal logic positively miseducates men for argument, great must be the
likelihood of such confusion on the part of fluent writers who venture on ..."
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