misdistinguish
English edit
Etymology edit
mis- + distinguish
Verb edit
misdistinguish (third-person singular simple present misdistinguishes, present participle misdistinguishing, simple past and past participle misdistinguished)
- (transitive, rare) To make wrong distinctions in or concerning.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, volume 3:
- So that if we imagine a difference where there is none, because we distinguish where we should not, it may not be denied that we misdistinguish.