mispunctuate

American  

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

verb (used with object)

mispunctuated, mispunctuating

1. to punctuate incorrectly.

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Other Word Forms

• mispunctuation
  noun

Etymology

Origin of mispunctuate

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

Example Sentences

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mispunctuate mispunctuated

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 The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear

Before long, I was dashing off eccentrically mispunctuated, barely readable stream-of-consciousness monologues stocked with the biggest words I knew.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2017

The criticism which feeds upon research and comparison, which considers a new date or the emendation of a mispunctuated line of verse, worthy of effort, knows not Chesterton.

From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by West, Julius