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/mɪstˈeɪkɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Mistaking n. An error; a mistake.

verb

Mistake v. t. (past mistook; past part. mistaken; pres. part. mistaking)

To take or choose wrongly. (Obs. or R.)

To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. "My father's purposes have been mistook."

To substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another. "A man may mistake the love of virtue for the practice of it."

To have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge. "Mistake me not so much, To think my poverty is treacherous."

Mistake v. i. (past mistook; past part. mistaken; pres. part. mistaking) To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error. "Servants mistake, and sometimes occasion misunderstanding among friends."

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"Mistaking" Quotes from Famous Books

... rumour this, but it is like enough, for his Majesty hath the love of his people and a kingly mind; and what he purposes he makes shift to carry out, and that right speedily. But be that as it may, there is no mistaking his royal summons to his Round Table, and I am hastening back across the water to be at Windsor on the appointed day; and if it will pleasure you twain to journey thither with me, I trow you will see things the like of which you have never dreamed before; and sure a better fashion of ...

— In the Days of Chivalry • Evelyn Everett-Green

... dear Lady Lucy, you are the very Hogarth of Ridicule, there is no mistaking the— Original [apart] see, see poor Miss Dy. how She Miffs. the strapping Irishman was ...

— The Covent Garden Theatre, or Pasquin Turn'd Drawcansir • Charles Macklin

... mainly by the desire to give expression to their deep personal convictions. If there were demagogues here and there among them, seeking merely to create a balance of power for bargain and sale, they were unimportant in number, and only of local influence, and soon became deserters. There was no mistaking the earnestness of the body of this faction. A few fanatical men, who had made it the vehicle of violent expressions, had kept it under the ban of popular prejudice. It had long been held up to public odium as a revolutionary band of "abolitionists." ...

— Abraham Lincoln: A History V1 • John G. Nicolay and John Hay

... Government to repress the growth of the industry, to tax it at every turn, to prevent the working classes from settling here and making their homes and surrounding themselves with their families, and there is no mistaking the significance of the action of the President when he opposed the throwing open of the town lands of Pretoria on the ground that 'he might have a second Johannesburg there,' nor that of his speech upon the motion for ...

— The Transvaal from Within - A Private Record of Public Affairs • J. P. Fitzpatrick

... toward the opening in the partition. At the instant he was preparing to stoop to crawl back into the bank building, the deputy in the chair yawned, stretched and opened his eyes, staring stupidly at him. There was no mistaking the dancing glitter in Trevison's eyes, no possible misinterpretation of his tense, throaty whisper: "One chirp and you're a dead one!" And the deputy stiffened in the chair, dumb ...

— 'Firebrand' Trevison • Charles Alden Seltzer

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