Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who interprets erroneously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who interprets erroneously.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
misinterprets , or makesmisinterpretations
Etymologies
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Examples
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He is supposed to be a servant of the Constitution, not an interpreter, or rather a misinterpreter.
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In virtue of the right which domestics claim to listen at doors and overhear family secrets, this skilled misinterpreter and prolific liar had learnt and shaped to her own purposes most of the facts in my life which could be utilized for my ruin.
Mauprat George Sand 1840
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The Desert is a great exaggerator and misinterpreter.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828
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In it, Kenyon agrees it was a bad idea to use Philips alone to take measurements, and had no idea that the Swedish scientist he used a resource is considered controversial (read: a misinterpreter of results, which I know from reading his actual study, which includes a lot less correlation than he or anyone else reading it claims).
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"Whoso," says Milton, "prefers either matrimony or other ordinance before the good of man and the plain exigence of charity, let him profess Papist or Protestant or what he will, he is no better than a pharisee, and understands not the gospel; whom, as a misinterpreter of
The Woman Who Dared Epes Sargent 1846
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