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Definition of Miswrote
1. miswrite [v] - See also: miswrite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Miswrote
Literary usage of Miswrote
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1854)
"Then Greeks and Latins, through neglect of barbarous idioms, misunderstood and
miswrote the sounds uttered in them. Lastly, ignorant monastic transcribers ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1885)
"It is just sible that the parish-clerk miswrote ' sixth' for ' sixteenth ' or
for ' nineteenth ' (ut ..."
3. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1848)
"[This Stationer's name was Henry Kirkham: it is the first time it has occurred
in our extracts, but the clerk miswrote the name again when next he had ..."
4. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1849)
"... Knight;" and the clerk farther miswrote the name of the French " deviser," (as
he is called on the title-page of the printed editions) which was ..."
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