Sentence example with the word 'misconceive'

misconceive

contort, get one wrong, make a miscue, misapprehend, miscue, misexplicate, misinterpret, misread, mistranslate, squeeze, twist the words

Definition v. interpret in the wrong way

Last update: October 9, 2015


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Don't misconceive the entire event.   [Please select]

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In trying to subject history to the order of logic they sometimes misconceive the filiation of ideas.   [Please select]

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Previously his story was overlaid by monstrous accumulations of legend, and his teaching violently misconceived.   [Please select]

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Then, children of one Father, they could not err nor misconceive one another.   [Please select]

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PHILOSOPHY, commonly misconceived, 3; of the devotee, 13; of the man of affairs, 14; of the voluptuary, 16; of life, its general meaning, 17 ff.   [Please select]

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And yet, oddly enough, most of these distinctions have been misunderstood and the whole purport of the discussion misconceived.   [Please select]

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He misconceived his adversary who thought to quell him by such vapours.   [Please select]

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In truth he was master by this time, and utterly misconceived her.   [Please select]

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The latter has seen a truth and misconceived it, thus losing some truth that he had before he began to reflect.   [Please select]

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