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miscensure

/mɪsˈsɛnʃə(ɹ)/

miscensure verb: to misjudge.

Verb

miscensure (third-person singular simple present miscensures, present participle miscensuring, simple past and past participle miscensured)

  1. (obsolete) To misjudge.
    • if we mis-censure your actions, which are euer (as those of men) according to the vogue1618, Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England

Noun

miscensure (plural miscensures)

  1. (obsolete) erroneous judgment
    • Your hard Opinions, and mis-Censures1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson...

Forms of miscensure

Verb
third-person singular presentmiscensures
present participlemiscensuring
past participlemiscensured
pastmiscensured
Noun
pluralmiscensures

Origin of miscensure

From mis- + censure.

Questions about miscensure

What does miscensure mean?
Miscensure means to misjudge.
What part of speech is miscensure?
Miscensure can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce miscensure?
Miscensure is pronounced /mɪsˈsɛnʃə(ɹ)/.
What is the past tense of miscensure?
The past tense of miscensure is miscensured.

Words near miscensure in the dictionary

  1. miscellanies
  2. miscellanious
  3. miscellanist
  4. miscellanists
  5. miscellany
  6. miscensure
  7. miscensured
  8. miscensures
  9. miscensuring
  10. miscentering
  11. miscenterings

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