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misprinting

  • present participle
    of misprint.
    misprint
    noun
    a mistake in printing, as an instance of printing a letter or word other than that intended.

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The secret feuds of suppressing, misplacing, and misprinting, which it has carried on against us, have long deserved that this declaration should be held in honorable remembrance, and that continuously.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke

This is a valuable work, but marred, especially in the first volume, by the unparalleled misprinting, the engagements of the author not permitting him to correct the proofs.

From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

Also where the employment or omission of a capital is plainly due to misprinting, as too frequently in the 1673 edition, I silently make the correction.

From The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Turnbull perpetuates 1670's misprint of 'in' for 'with' in line 2, and adds one of his own in line 26, by misprinting 'guest' for 'guests.'

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Richard Crashaw

Mr. Westcott's book confuses this portion of his chronology by misprinting two or three dates, on the 113th page.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various