misapprehension

[ UK /mɪsˌæpɹɪhˈɛnʃən/ ]
[ US /mɪˌsæpɹiˈhɛnʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. an understanding of something that is not correct
    he wasn't going to admit his mistake
    there must be some misunderstanding--I don't have a sister
    make no mistake about his intentions
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How To Use misapprehension In A Sentence

  • Manifold errors have arisen from this misapprehension, which is far from the meaning of the apostolic injunction. The Scriptural Expositions of Dr. Augustus Neander: III. The First Epistle of John, Practically Explained.
  • A mental construct arising from a misapprehension of the relationship between the crofter and his land.
  • The first was a growing misapprehension regarding the possible effects of a world dominated by a single superpower.
  • However, he was under the misapprehension that he was dying - so he proposed to Charlotte, offering her widowhood (although it's not known whether either of them considered this to be a bit of a rough deal).
  • The second myth The Economist wanted do dispel was the misapprehension that blogs are essentially parasitic on other media.
  • As to this it is necessary to avoid misapprehension lest the protection be too limited.
  • Peeping through the lowered venetians of yesteryear (recollection as a species of voyeurism is very Ishiguro), the retrovert is privy to a series of partial visions that eventually reveal a life guided by calamitous misapprehension on his part. New Fiction
  • No doubt schools could do a lot to correct this sort of misapprehension.
  • Some of them begin with the appearances of ghostly wrongdoers and phantasmal murders, but in the end they are revealed to be hoaxes or misapprehensions of the Scooby Doo ilk. Book Review: The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Fandomania
  • You seem to be under a misapprehension.
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