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misargument

misargument noun: incorrect argument.

Noun

misargument (plural misarguments)

  1. (rare) incorrect argument
    • should not merely try to establish our own opinion dogmatically and historically, and content ourselves with exposing and refuting the misstatements and misarguments of our erring brethren:1847, John Howard Hinton, Julius Charles Hare, Richard Dawes, The True Remedy for the Evils of the Agehttps://books.google.com/books?id=n8s6AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA5-PA101&dq=%22misarguments%22
    • to be in doubt whether a paper written in defence of Christian doctrine, has not in itself afforded a handle to infidel misarguments.1877, William Ricketts Cooper, The Horus Myth in Its Relation to Christianityhttps://books.google.com/books?id=1HwOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA76&dq=%22misarguments%22

Examples of misargument in a sentence

  • The author of the Topics teaches generalities about the forms and ingredients of arguments and misarguments.1986, Thomas Hugh Chance, Euthydemian Studies: Analysis of Plato's Euthydemushttps://books.google.com/books?id=WOVIAQAAMAAJ&q=%22misargument...
  • That is a clear misargument of what the law is.1975, Open Sessions of the Committee on Rules and Administrationhttps://books.google.com/books?id=GkMVAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA595&dq=%22misargument%22
  • Those ships would not be built in the U.S. anyway and this is a misnomer and a misargument which is frequently utilized, that we are losing jobs by building those ships overseas.1983, Maritime Administration Reauthorizationhttps://books.google.com/books?id=v9zdFmcI5JkC&pg=RA3-PA22&dq=%22misargument%22
  • Serious prosecutorial misargument has occasionally led us to conclude that a pre-Brown jury was misled.1990, People v. Gonzalezhttps://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/3d/51/1179.html

Forms of misargument

pluralmisarguments

Origin of misargument

From mis- + argument.

Questions about misargument

What does misargument mean?
Misargument means incorrect argument.
How do you use misargument in a sentence?
The author of the Topics teaches generalities about the forms and ingredients of arguments and misarguments.
What part of speech is misargument?
Misargument is a noun.
What is the plural of misargument?
The plural of misargument is misarguments.

Words near misargument in the dictionary

  1. misapproximations
  2. misarchism
  3. misarchist
  4. misarchists
  5. misarchy
  6. misargument
  7. misarguments
  8. misarrange
  9. misarranged
  10. misarrangement
  11. misarrangements

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