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Definition of Misnames
1. misname [v] - See also: misname
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misnames
Literary usage of Misnames
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1903)
"In the new supplements all misnames of plants from all authors are quoted without
but all from the bulk of such misnames given by Jackson and by Durand ..."
2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1901)
"... but themselves establish beyond cavil the value of that John " of Polycarp,"
whom Friar William misnames and utilizes. To come to a lesser matter ..."
3. The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt (1902)
"The cloistered virtue which timidly shrinks from all contact with the rough world
of actual life, and the uneasy, self- conscious vanity which misnames ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1881)
"Dugdale misnames her Elizabeth, and omits to state that she was by her first
marriage the mother of the fourth Earl of Westmoreland. ..."
5. The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt (1903)
"The cloistered virtue which timidly shrinks from all contact with the rough world
of actual life, and the uneasy, self-conscious vanity which misnames ..."
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