Misconstruction
[,mɪskən'strʌkʃən]
Definition
(n.) Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation.
Inputed by Jules
Examples
- To save her from misconstruction, cruel misconstruction, that even my friends have not been able to avoid, becomes my duty. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I have exposed myself to worse misconstruction than that, she said. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- None shall know where we have been or what we have seen to-night; neither taunt nor misconstruction can consequently molest us. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- No wonder that in Lydgate's energetic nature the sense of a hopeless misconstruction easily turned into a dogged resistance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I reminded her that she would be exposing herself to the most odious misconstruction of her motives. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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