mispunctuate

American

[mis-puhngk-choo-eyt] / mɪsˈpʌŋk tʃuˌeɪt /

verb (used with object)

mispunctuated, mispunctuating

to punctuate incorrectly.

Other Word Forms

mispunctuation noun

Etymology

Origin of mispunctuate

First recorded in 1840–50; mis- ¹ + punctuate

Example Sentences

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Mispunctuate, mis-pungk′tū-āt, v.t. and v.i. to punctuate wrongly.—n.

From Project Gutenberg

All editors, misled no doubt by 37, mispunctuate this passage, placing a comma before quorum instead of after: this destroys the gerundive quorum ... appellandorum, leaving the pentameter without a construction.

From Project Gutenberg

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