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Misapprehend   Listen
verb
Misapprehend  v. t.  To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Misapprehend" Quotes from Famous Books



... distinct interior words, they too are subject to illusion; the enemy can form and counterfeit them. Or if they come from a good angel (for God Himself never speaks thus) we may mistake and misapprehend them. They are spoken in a divine manner, but we construe them in a human and ...
— The Autobiography of Madame Guyon • Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon

... say) that hate England "worse than toad or asp," have never been rivalled by any corresponding institutions in other lands, I may as well take this opportunity of explaining the word grammar, which most people misapprehend. Men suppose a grammar school to mean a school where they teach grammar. But this is not the true meaning, and tends to calumniate such schools by ignoring their highest functions. Limiting by a false limitation the earliest object contemplated by such ...
— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey



Words linked to "Misapprehend" :   misinterpret, see, misconceive, misconstrue, misapprehension, misunderstand, construe, interpret, be amiss



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