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Definition of Misquotation
1. Noun. An incorrect quotation.
Definition of Misquotation
1. n. Erroneous or inaccurate quotation.
Definition of Misquotation
1. Noun. An incorrect quotation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misquotation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misquotation
Literary usage of Misquotation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on Cotton Exchanges by United States Bureau of Corporations, Herbert Knox Smith (1908)
"ALLEGED misquotation IN MARCH AND APRIL, 1907.—It has already been shown that,
whereas the contract price in the New York market during the crop year 1906-7 ..."
2. The American Journal of Insanity by New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum (1906)
"MOREL'S SUPPOSED RULE OF DEGENERACY, A CURIOUS AND PERSISTENT misquotation.—In
1857 Morel of Rouen published his well-known and now classical work entitled ..."
3. The King's English by Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1906)
"misquotation OF LESS FAMILIAR PASSAGES But the greatest wrong is done to readers
when a passage that may not improbably be unknown to them is altered. ..."
4. Facts and Fancies for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature: A by Charles Carroll Bombaugh (1905)
"... misquotation The inscription on the tomb of Sir Christopher Wren, the architect
of St. Paul's Cathedral, closes with the notice to the reader, ..."
5. The New Discussion of the Trinity: Containing Notices of Professor by Frederic Dan Huntington, Thomas Starr King, Orville Dewey, American Unitarian Association (1860)
"... misquotation OF MEANDER ON THE TRINITY. MR. EDITOR : — In Dr. Huntington's Sermon
on the .Trinity, in his recently published volume entitled " Christian ..."
6. Second Part of Cooke's Centuries: Being a Defence and Confirmation of the by Parsons Cooke (1855)
"misquotation OF DR. RUPP. By a typographical error in our first edition, quotation
marks were made to include a passage, which we intended only as a ..."
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