misaccusation
English edit
Etymology edit
mis- + accusation or misaccuse + -ation
Noun edit
misaccusation (countable and uncountable, plural misaccusations)
- An act of misaccusing; a false accusation.
- 1988, Wacław Zajączkowski, Martyrs of charity, page 31:
- You constantly hear the misaccusation that Christianity crucified the Jewish nation during the Holocaust.
- 2010, Craig Calhoun, Robert K. Merton: Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science, →ISBN:
- This is truly a case of misapprehension and misaccusation.
- 2013, Dan Smyer Yu, The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China: Charisma, Money, Enlightenment, →ISBN:
- However, he devotes the first thirty-two pages to the restoration of the public image of Buddhism from the Chinese Marxist misaccusation of it as a superstition.