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Definition of Misestimating
1. misestimate [v] - See also: misestimate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misestimating
Literary usage of Misestimating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1862)
"If any of oui readers suspect that we are overestimating or misestimating Irving,
let them remember what Carlyle says of the " uncelebrated, high- souled, ..."
2. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"... misestimating the genius and attributing the highest value to the wrong item
in the aggregate. I may be mistaken in my estimate of Ruskin, but I believe ..."
3. A Treasury of Humorous Poetry: Being a Compilation of Witty, Facetious, and by Frederic Lawrence Knowles (1902)
"... ancient army mule; Second, there are many dangers In misestimating strangers.
A father said unto his hopeful son: "Who was Leonidas, my cherished .one? ..."
4. The History of Greece by William Mitford (1823)
"... probably misestimating the value of Grecian arms and discipline, and incouraged
by a view of the smallness of the numbers actually attending Alexander, ..."
5. The History of Greece by William Mitford (1823)
"... probably misestimating the value of Grecian arms and discipline, and incouraged
by a view of the smallness of the numbers actually attending Alexander, ..."
6. French Literature of To-day: A Study of the Principal Romancers and Essayists by Yetta Blaze de Bury (1898)
"... his opinion of her species is so willingly, so purposely, a misestimating one
that he endows her with no wish to abstract herself from self-absorption ..."
7. Yale Lectures on Preaching: And Other Writings by Nathaniel Judson Burton (1888)
"And even those who could not harmonize with his mind and his doctrinal ideas,
and were therefore in danger of misestimating his exceeding abilities, ..."
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