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Definition of Misplacement
1. Noun. Faulty position.
Definition of Misplacement
1. n. The act of misplacing, or the state of being misplaced.
Definition of Misplacement
1. Noun. Bad placement. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misplacement
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misplacement
Literary usage of Misplacement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surety Bonds: Nature, Functions, Underwriting Requirements by Edward Clark Lunt (1922)
"The "misplacement" Coverage This was not so bad a world to live in until a certain
lady (as usual a lady), named Pandora, opened a certain box and permitted ..."
2. On renal and urinary affections by William Howship Dickinson (1885)
"misplacement. BEFORE considering the movable kidney, which may either be congenital
or acquired, a word may be said about congenital misplacement of the ..."
3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Where it is lost, conscious attempts to restore it on the part of uneducated
speakers lead to absurd misplacement» of h and to its restoration in Romance ..."
4. Obscure diseases of the brain and mind by Forbes Benignus Winslow (1866)
"... in incipient cerebral disease—Morbid irregularity of speech—Forgetfulness of
certain words a symptom of apoplexy—Singular misplacement of words—Cases of ..."
5. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Women by Theodore Gaillard Thomas (1880)
"Congenital misplacement of the Uterus—Sometimes the uterus is placed, by reason
of its peculiarity of development, obliquely across the pelvis, inclining to ..."
6. The King's English by Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1906)
"misplacement OF WORDS Generous interpretation will generally get at a writer's
meaning; but for him to rely on that is to appeal ad miseri- ..."
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