mis-theorise

English

Verb

mis-theorise (third-person singular simple present mis-theorises, present participle mis-theorising, simple past and past participle mis-theorised)

1. Alternative form of mistheorize
   • 1957, Rivista di letterature moderne e comparate - Volumes 10-11, page 260:

     Unhappily, Professor Rosamund Tuve's Elizabethan and Metaphysical imagery, which exposed an eras of tendencious misreading and mis-theorising, was by no means an apt presentation of her irresistible case, and while she goes unread Donne continues to be appraised for wonders not his own.

   • 2007, C. Beard, S. Clegg, K Smith, “Acknowledging the Affective in Higher Education”, in British Educational Research Journal, volume 33, number 2, page 235:

     The question is not whether emotion should be introduced into the curriculum; our argument is that the affective and embodied are already aspects of all pedagogical encounters but that in higher education, in particular, emotion is rarely acknowledged and is under- or mis-theorised.

   • 2018, Donald L. Carveth, The Still Small Voice:

     Although they obscured and mis-theorised their insight through their biologism, the Freudians and Kleinians were at least aware of the demonic in human nature as intrinsic to our being, and not merely a reaction to victimisation at the hands of others.