How To Use Misapprehension In A Sentence
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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.
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A mental construct arising from a misapprehension of the relationship between the crofter and his land.
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The first was a growing misapprehension regarding the possible effects of a world dominated by a single superpower.
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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).
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The second myth The Economist wanted do dispel was the misapprehension that blogs are essentially parasitic on other media.
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As to this it is necessary to avoid misapprehension lest the protection be too limited.
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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
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No doubt schools could do a lot to correct this sort of misapprehension.
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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.
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You seem to be under a misapprehension.
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There are no major mistakes or misapprehensions in their knowledge and beliefs about the disease.
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A similar misapprehension is often attached to the statement “the proof of the pudding is in the eating”.
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Scientists close to the programme are aware of the dangers of these misapprehensions, for public respect towards science, as much as for the future of biotechnology.
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So Bret Stephens is brain-dead, his conscience and journalistic competence freeze-dried one devastating scientific misapprehension, misquotation and kited factoid at a time.
The sadists, the masochists and the scientists
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Shortly afterwards he gallantly declined to correct her misapprehension that George was the donor.
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Such a factor, however, cannot be introduced, or re-introduced, into our theological thinking without necessitating a good deal of revision, nor without causing a certain measure of temporary confusion and dislocation; it will accordingly be the principal object of the following chapters to clear up misapprehensions which have arisen in connection with the idea of immanence, to assign to it its approximately proper place in Christian thought, and to safeguard an important truth against the injury done to it -- and {22} so to all truth -- by a zeal that is not according to knowledge.
Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
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He laboured under the constant misapprehension that nobody liked him.
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Much of the correspondence contained in this volume shows Proust acting to dispel such misapprehensions.
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Given your political beliefs, I can understand some of the misapprehensions that you suffer from, but some of the statements near the end of your article were so out of touch with the actual facts that I could only read in stunned disbelief.
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And if it be so with all, then let all get this apprehension as fast as they can, and all shall be well with the whole world, now miserably captived under a misapprehension of their own condition; that is, let them say the Scripture is a fable, and the terror of the Almighty a scarecrow to fright children; that sin is only in conceit; and so square their conversation to their blasphemous fancies.
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
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Such a misapprehension is perhaps especially acute when the character in question is presumed to be more or less autobiographical, but even characters not immediately associated with the writer him/herself are, if Zadie Smith is to be believed, mostly an opportunity for the author to indulge in "the attempted revelation of [an] elusive, multifaceted self" -- that is, his or her own "selfhood," the "development" of which is central to the act of writing.
Point of View in Fiction
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On the other, there were swelling misapprehensions from the lack of a united line of action, of a clear model on economic growth and improvement of the standard of living.
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Likewise, contrary to the misapprehensions of fencing historians, thrusts were not delivered in stabbing or jabbing action.
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But there is a sense of misalignment, or misapprehension, in this.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The second misunderstanding arises from a misapprehension about an idea we have been studying throughout this book and which we just considered again: the sanctity of life.
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However, I would like to correct their present misapprehensions.
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From my own experience of more than a decade of working closely with the industry and with doctors, misapprehensions and misunderstandings persist on both sides.
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I had long laboured under the misapprehension that to be the subject of a tribute you had to either be dead, have done something worthwhile or have reached a milestone in a certain profession.
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Such a misapprehension is perhaps especially acute when the character in question is presumed to be more or less autobiographical, but even characters not immediately associated with the writer him/herself are, if Zadie Smith is to be believed, mostly an opportunity for the author to indulge in "the attempted revelation of [an] elusive, multifaceted self" -- that is, his or her own "selfhood," the "development" of which is central to the act of writing.
Point of View in Fiction
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French extraction, and unconversant with your somewhat cryptic patois, the lady in question is the less likely to have been sickened by your extravagances in the way of misapprehension.
The Certain Hour
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It has been suggested that British broadcasting corporations give the public what it thinks it should have and not what the public wants and that misapprehension is based upon this great fallacy-that if you are going to give the public what it wants you must not appreciate its view; you must depreciate it, and I am sure you will discover in Canada, as we have in Great Britain, that you must skillfully arrange and constantly raise your standard of program.
Should Broadcasting Be Controlled?
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It would be itself a form of institutional racism to demand that people of visibly distinctive ethnic backgrounds act with special caution to avoid giving rise to misapprehensions.
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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
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More damningly, the education system has been labouring under this misapprehension too.
The Sun
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But it is a common misapprehension to think that joint orders afford some sort of protection.
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The first was a growing misapprehension regarding the possible effects of a world dominated by a single superpower.
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This problem with misapprehension is very familiar, with overtones of those people (you know who you are) who think of the Internet as a bunch of "tubes," for example.
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The old man Spector handled himself well with all these nuts, but the majority of his time was wasted as an avenue for a platform to these Limbaugh/Paliin ditto heads (not to) ask pertinent questions, but blather about misapprehensions.
Specter faces angry crowd at town hall meeting
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Was that Cabinet minister under a misapprehension or do you actually wield power or influence?
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I understand that anglers at this venue are having bother with boaters who seem to be under the misapprehension that the sand bed opposite the Nidd mouth is available for mooring.
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He should confront head-on the fundamental misapprehensions driving the public mood.
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Thus far, of course, this is all the result of my own misapprehension.
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It is, rather, a smothering of the soul or a gallows boast, perfervid and florid - an unwitting confession of peewee excesses, of niggling lavishnesses, and of misapprehensions of the phony for the real and the swinish for the good.
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He laboured under the constant misapprehension that nobody liked him.
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You seem to be labouring under considerable misapprehensions.
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Men still appear to be labouring under the misapprehension that women want hairy, muscular men.
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Cinderella's famous slipper was made of "vair," which, through a misapprehension in being translated
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
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And George says that, in spite of many popular misapprehensions, logging is often good for forests.
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False septums may have been put in later on which could lead to the misapprehension of a syncarpous ovary at superficial examination.
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It corrected some of the misapprehension of New Zealanders, stating that the Moriori were from the same East Polynesian background as the Maori.
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Before it is too late, the government and all the parties related should work together to correct the current public misapprehensions and revive the collapsing poultry industry.
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Money orders which, in consequence of misapprehension of the name of the remitter or place of payment have been erroneously made out, can be returned to the postmaster, and a correct order given in exchange; a new commission, however, will be charged on the corrected order.
Canadian Postal Guide
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Despite frequent inconsistencies and misapprehensions, the work was a principal transmitter of ancient science and Neoplatonic thought to the western Middle Ages.
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hollered one ample young madam, under the misapprehension she was being casually friendly.
LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
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The boss's misapprehension mad her want to weep with frustration.
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If a man can die through a misapprehension, is there any immorality in making him live through a misapprehension?
Chapter 17
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But I am not under the misapprehension that I'm doing eight-minute cures.
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Instead of possibly freeing people from their misconceptions and misapprehensions, we solidify them and, in fact, remove the conditions under which true personal growth and rapprochement are possible.
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He should confront head-on the fundamental misapprehensions driving the public mood.
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In truth, the popular misapprehension on this subject has not been occasioned by any obscurity in the colophons of the great printer, or in the survey of Stow, but merely by the erroneous constricted sense into which the word abbey has passed in this country.
Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850
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The boss's misapprehension mad her want to weep with frustration.
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Page 107: (comparing different levels of subsistence in England and Scotland) This difference, however, in the mode of their subsistence is not the cause, but the effect, of the diference in their wages; though, by a strange misapprehension, I have frequently heard it represented as the cause.
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
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To expose this misapprehension, would be to repeat what has been said in the introductory chapter.
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American defender of theirs says just the same of their industrialism and free-trade; indeed, this gentleman, taking the bull by the horns, proposes that we should for the [78] future call industrialism culture, and the industrialists the men of culture, and then of course there can be no longer any misapprehension about their true character; and besides the pleasure of being wealthy and comfortable, they will have authentic recognition as vessels of sweetness and light.
Culture and Anarchy
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In time the political establishment scrambled to respond, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu naming a committee to list specific actions - more money for child care, less for defense - that many in the group call a misapprehension of what was, at bottom, something more diffuse: a remaking of the national consciousness.
TIME.com: Top Stories
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You seem to be under a misapprehension.
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When answering the counselor's question, "Where are you?" the counselee must have the freedom to correct any misapprehensions by saying, "No, not there; I am over here.
Leading with our ears
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It's funny and pathetic that people sit and meticulously compile errata like this, apparently under the misapprehension that we're too stupid to get it right rather than realizing the filmmakers decided to do it a certain way.
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Equally, we could neither of us be under any misapprehension of the problems we would face.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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In time, the political establishment scrambled to respond, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu naming a committee to list specific actions - more money for child care, less for defense - that many in the group call a misapprehension of what was, at bottom, something more diffuse: a remaking of the national consciousness.
TIME.com: Top Stories
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Plus, the laptop's on the fritz so my scope for getting to a keyboard to correct misapprehensions has been limited.
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Fifteen minutes alone were dedicated to teaching it the name Frege, which his laptop interpreted as ‘radio’ – an amusing misapprehension which Frege himself would have doubtless been well-placed to appreciate.
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