misknown

And if that shadow is ultimately unknowable, as it must be, I am resolved that it should not go ultimately misknown, or wrongly known, as it has been.

May 2005: Nick Tosches on Arnold Rothstein Tosches, Nick 2005

What he has suffered from the ungrateful generations that have followed him should really make us humble ourselves to the dust, to think that the most excellent man our country has produced, to whom we owe everything that distinguishes us among the nations, should have been so sneered at, misknown, and abused [Applause].

Paras. 1-24 1909

Yes -- there is something besides about Sette and Occy being either unknown or misknown, through the fault of their growing.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) 1907

But some such note there is in them, and it may be that the immense stretch of time during which they were worse than unknown -- misknown -- has brought it about.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

The endlessness of the progress, the fact that every truth known to-day seems misknown to-morrow, that every ideal once achieved only points to another and becomes itself a stepping stone, does not, as in his later days, bring despair to him.

Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Henry Jones 1887

Faustina he would seem at least to have kept, by a constraining affection, from becoming altogether what most people have believed her, and won in her (we must take him at his word in the "Thoughts," abundantly confirmed by letters, on both sides, in his correspondence with Cornelius Fronto) a consolation, the more secure, perhaps, because misknown of others.

Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 Walter Pater 1866

But great men are too often unknown, or what is worse, misknown.

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

Yes ” there is something besides about Sette and Occy being either unknown or misknown, through the fault of their growing.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898