misconceive
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of misconceive
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at mis- 1, conceive
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Regrettably, he and they misconceive the application of the U.S.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2023
People misconceive reality, according to his diagnosis, because they think about it without imagination or by rote.
From Time Magazine Archive
But in his own time it came upon ears which were naturally disposed to misconceive it.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
In the first place, you entirely misconceive the process by which the Revelation comes to Mary.
From The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation by Edward Maitland
But to suppose that either of these charges extends to the character of the moralist is altogether to misconceive the position which moral theories actually hold in life.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Some movies are toxically misconceived, and “The Drama” is among them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
The two actors play a couple whose engagement is thrown into chaos by a single shocking secret in this misconceived rom-com from Kristoffer Borgli.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
Those changes enabled the bandmates, friends since they were teens, to become even closer, despite any misconceived notion that they’ve been at odds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
He said a review of the health service to be published on Thursday finds changes to the NHS were "hopelessly misconceived".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2024
Until Columbus demonstrated that classical geography was hopelessly misconceived, the assumption was that the arguments of the ancients needed to be interpreted, not challenged.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
For wine has many excellences, and one pre-eminent one, about which there is a difficulty in speaking to the many, from a fear of their misconceiving and misunderstanding what is said.
From Laws by Benjamin Jowett
Don't ask me to forgive; I ask your pardon for misconceiving you; I have nothing to forgive in you.
From The Unwilling Vestal by Edward Lucas White
Without taking rest or food, Shamus proceeded to London Bridge, often put out of his course by wrong directions, and as often by forgetting and misconceiving true ones.
From Stories by English Authors: Ireland by Samuel Lover
The only safeguard against this sort of misconceiving is to insist on varied statement, and to bring the child's conceptions, wherever it be possible, to some sort of practical test.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
In this instance there was no misconceiving the meaning of the action; but whoever watches birds in the pairing season is often at his wit's end to know what to make of their demonstrations.
From Birds in the Bush by Bradford Torrey
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