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Definition of Mispointed
1. mispoint [v] - See also: mispoint
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mispointed
Literary usage of Mispointed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biblical Criticism on the First Fourteen Historical Books of the Old by Samuel Horsley (1820)
"And if these passages are thus rightly rendered, the word in both texts is
mispointed by the Masoretes. In the text of Job, it is at any rate ..."
2. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk by John Merlin Powis Smith, William Hayes Ward, Julius August Bewer (1911)
"... shall bear witness for time to come, and proclaim to the end; as i;1. and njv
are thus connected in Ps. 27" Pr. 6" 12"" 19*- *, although mispointed ..."
3. The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (1901)
"Had "this fellow ' stood "upon points," his carefully mispointed speech would
have read nearly as follows:— " If we offend, it is with our good will That ..."
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