Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To misunderstand.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To know imperfectly; misapprehend.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To have a mistaken notion of or about.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
misunderstand
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Examples
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Byron did not misknow himself, nor misapprehend the most marked turn of his own character when he wrote the lines --
Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 3: Byron John Morley 1880
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It would be greatly to misknow Gibbon to suppose that his studies at
Gibbon James Cotter Morison 1860
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Why should we misknow one another, fight not against the enemy but against ourselves, from mere difference of uniform?
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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There is at least one case where the negative form is almost never used while the positive is in everyone's vocabulary: misknow, believe it or not, is a valid, if ignored English word.
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