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  • verb Present participle of mistranslate.

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Examples

  • (The word Easter appears only once in the King James Version of the Bible-in Acts 12: 4-where it is flagrantly mistranslated from the Greek word pascha, which should be translated "Passover," as most versions render it.)

    Latest Articles 2009

  • The word mistranslated as “day” is a generic word meaning “period of time”, which can more properly be translated as “Age” or “Epoch”.

    Think Progress » Congressman: ‘I Fear…We Will Have Many More Muslims In The United States’ 2006

  • Two terms in the vice list have been mistranslated from the Greek in all modern versions, and this has caused needless pain in the church: malos ( "soft," that is, lacking self-control) and arsenokoites

    CyberBrethren-A Lutheran Blog 2009

  • It is … regretful for me to have this book, an honest testimony of gay Muslim life, have its title mistranslated with the use of a pejorative term that demeans gays.

    Global Voices in English » Arab World: Trouble for Gay Travels in the Muslim World 2009

  • The Bush administration immediately said well, that can't be right, this statement was out of context, that was mistranslated, that isn't what he meant blah, blah, blah.

    CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2008 2008

  • The Bush administration immediately said that can't be right: the statement was out of context, it was mistranslated, that isn't what he meant blah blah blah.

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • The Bush administration immediately said that can't be right: the statement was out of context, it was mistranslated, that isn't what he meant blah blah blah.

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • The Bush administration immediately said that can't be right: the statement was out of context, it was mistranslated, that isn't what he meant blah blah blah.

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • The Bush administration immediately said that can't be right: the statement was out of context, it was mistranslated, that isn't what he meant blah blah blah.

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • The Bush administration immediately said that can't be right: the statement was out of context, it was mistranslated, that isn't what he meant blah blah blah.

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

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