misemployment

Thus, included in Kant's criticism is the claim that the category of existence is being subject to a transcendental misemployment (A598/B626).

Kant's Critique of Metaphysics Grier, Michelle 2007

The influence that we might have acquired over our fellow-men, thus winning them over to think of and practise "all things lovely and of good report," if it be neglected, is surely a sin of deeper dye than the misemployment of mere money.

The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends An English Lady

Nor so far as we are aware is there in Milton's writings the slightest trace of sorrow for the misemployment of his best years or consciousness of the ruin which it had wrought in his genius as a poet.

Lectures and Essays Goldwin Smith 1866

But I do not think that a democratic power is naturally without force or without resources: say, rather, that it is almost always by the abuse of its force and the misemployment of its resources that a democratic government fails.

democracy in America, volume 1 1838

But I do not think that a democratic power is naturally without force or without resources: say, rather, that it is almost always by the abuse of its force and the misemployment of its resources that a democratic government fails.

Democracy in America — Volume 1 Alexis de Tocqueville 1832

But I do not think that a democratic power is naturally without resources: say rather, that it is almost always by the abuse of its force, and the misemployment of its resources, that a democratic government fails.

American Institutions and Their Influence Alexis de Tocqueville 1832

It will not be a misemployment of time to consider now the next document laid before the College, to enable them to form their opinion, -- the Report of Dr. Albers, dated in March, and sent from St. Petersburg; -- this gentleman, who was at the head of a commission sent by the Prussian government to Moscow, states, that at St. Petersburgh,

Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the community. William Fergusson 1809

The ideas of pure reason cannot be, of themselves and in their own nature, dialectical; it is from their misemployment alone that fallacies and illusions arise.

The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

In the first place, I see no such custom; and if there was such a custom, there was the most abusive misemployment of it.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

There are conditions of life to which they must be forever estranged, and there are epochs of life too, after which the endeavor to attain them would be a great misemployment of time.

Letters 1760