misimagine
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misimagine (third-person singular simple present misimagines, present participle misimagining, simple past and past participle misimagined)
- To imagine incorrectly; to form an inaccurate mental image of.
- 1892, Thomas Osmond Summers, Switzerland: Historical and Descriptive, page 110:
- When the fact of their being ice, and not snow, is fully realized, still persons are apt to misimagine their appearance; for they are by no means smooth like our frozen lakes and rivers, but present a very unequal surface, undulating, furrowed, and broken.
- 1990, Paul Fussell, Killing, in Verse and Prose, and Other Essays, page 36:
- The stupidity, parochialism, and greed in the international mismanagement of the whole nuclear challenge should not tempt us to misimagine the circumstances of the bomb's first “use.”
- 2006, Shaun Nichols, The Architecture of the Imagination, page 59:
- It is not easy to say what it is to misimagine another person. It is easier to give a useful description of some other kinds of misimagination.