misconstruance
English edit
Etymology edit
From misconstrue + -ance.
Noun edit
misconstruance (countable and uncountable, plural misconstruances)
- misconstrual
- 1915 March 18, Max Apel, “Max Apel Still Refuses to See”, in Valley Falls New Era[1], volume 47, number 1, Valley Falls, Kan.:
- In order to make myself perfectly clear so there can be no possible chance of misconstruance of my contention, I will state again ,I do not wish to see this government get into this war, for we are in a certain sense into it already, but to stay out off it.
- 1916 August 15, Larry Evans, “Then I’ll Come Back to You”, in The Falls City Journal[2], volume 49, number 214 (whole 5390), Falls City, Neb.:
- Caleb was most high spirited those days, for the line in regard to the progress of Steve’s work was in truth an understatement if anything, even though the assurance of his happiness might have been called a misconstruance of facts.
- 1932 May 26, “A Once Gentle Art”, in The Montgomery Advertiser, volume CIV, number 147, Montgomery, Ala., page four:
- Biographers and contemporary historians who paint only the pretty side of the picture have ceased to fool the public but their misconstruances are no more to be compared in effect with the fake realists than would be artificial sunlight and a darkened cellar deliberately filled with crawling creatures and slime.
- 1936 March 14, “Aviation Course Gets Approval: State WPA Authorities Pass On Local Project to Washington—Meeting Monday Here”, in The Plain Speaker, Hazleton, Pa., page 11:
- This has been made necessary so each applicant will learn fully what the instruction is and eliminates the possibility of misconstruances of the type of instruction offered.
- 2010, Steve B. Yates, Morkan’s Quarry, Moon City Press:
- Morkan knew of two misconstruances in the letter. First, he was no more esteemed in Springfield than scrubby-dutch landlords were in St. Louis. Second, his quarry was a culvert compared to those he’d visited along the Mississippi, sites he was sure Senator McBride had seen.