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Definition of Misplacing
1. misplace [v] - See also: misplace
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misplacing
Literary usage of Misplacing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Orthoëpist: A Pronouncing Manual Containing about Three Thousand Five by Alfred Ayres, Thomas Embley Osmun (1881)
"... the misplacing of an accent. billet-doux (Fr.)—be'ya'do'. The plural (billets-doux)
is pronounced, in French, precisely like the singular. bi-en'ni-al, ..."
2. The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most by Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott (1810)
"ON THE misplacing OF ONE OF THE ORNAMENTS IN COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. [From the
same, Oct. 13. ... misplacing ..."
3. The Covent Garden Journal by John Joseph Stockdale (1810)
"On (he misplacing one of the Ornaments in Covent Garden Theatre. (Morning Chronicle,
Oct. 14.) SMIRKE and KEMBLE we see, In their fondness for show, ..."
4. Between the Lines: Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After by Henry Bascom Smith (1911)
"The great fraud attempted in the Presidential election of 1864, wherein the
misplacing of a single letter led ..."
5. A help for English readers to understand mis-translated passages in our Bible by John Hale Murray (1881)
"misplacing AND HENCE MISCONSTRUING PASSAGES. FROM misplacing words of the originals,
as to the proper order for construing the sense, translators have often ..."
6. The Select Works of Archbishop Leighton: Prepared for the Practical Use of by Robert Leighton, George Barrell Cheever (1832)
"The direction here e;iven, corrects the misplacing of this diligence, and addresses
it right: Let it not be of the outward man in plaiting, fyc. ..."
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