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Definition of Miswriting
1. miswrite [v] - See also: miswrite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Miswriting
Literary usage of Miswriting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Latin Textual Emendation: Based on the Text of Plautus by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1896)
"And yet this miswriting not only survived successive generations of copyists,
but has actually established itself as a word of our language. ..."
2. The Arthur of the English Poets by Howard Maynadier (1907)
"... thow rew sely 6 sore, And be thou bold it shalbe bought.' * 1 Courteous and
noble. 2 miswriting of " it." 8 Of earth. 4 Message. ..."
3. Pahlavi Texts: Part I and II by Edward William West (1901)
"... besides, the rule must apply to other than the vilest doors, otherwise it
would not harmonize with § 75. It is not a miswriting of ..."
4. Old Testament and Semitic Studies in Memory of William Rainey Harper by William Rainey Harper (1908)
"In S <=-=^? the >-= is miswriting for ws. The c in AtA^wv may be due to the
influence of AeX^ot, StX<£i's, 8c\<f>a£. AeA^t's and Greek proper names. may be ..."
5. Studies in the Dialects of the Kentish Charters of the Old English Period by William Frank Bryan (1915)
"21 boem is placed here on the assumption that it is not a miswriting for bcem,
the usual form (which occurs in No. VIII), but that its vowel represents ..."
6. The Statutes by Great Britain (1871)
"... aforesaid nor any processe or returne Indictment, thereupon shall bee quashed
on the motion of the prisoner or his counsel for qu^hed for'"0 miswriting ..."
7. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1900)
"... where also he had been accused of heresy, the inference is strong that they do.
Dr. McCrie, in his 'Life of Knox,' through the miswriting of the word ..."
8. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1904)
"... besides many of the author's own making, like the absurd miswriting of the
name of Amenhotep IV. both in hieroglyphic and transliteration (IV. 118). ..."
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