miscopying
miscopying noun: the act of something being miscopied. Also the present participle and gerund of miscopy.
Noun
miscopying (countable and uncountable, plural miscopyings)
- The act of something being miscopied.
- The rectifying ſuch Miſentries, or Miſcopyings, are not Amendments of Faults in a Record, (for that faulty miſtaken Entry is not really the Record) but making true Entries of the Record.1702 December 6 (Gregorian calendar), Mr. Broderick, quotee, “The Tryals of Haagen Swendsen, Sarah Baynton, John Hartwell, and John Spurr, […]”, in A Compleat Collection of State-Tryals, and...
- It is no reaſonable Objection to God’s revealed Religion, that Men differ about the Number of Books, that they receive for canonical, or apocryphal, or that there are Obliterations, or Miſcopyings, or Miſtranſlations, in ſome Things in them, or that above thirty Books are mentioned in the holy...1749, “The Summary”, in An Essay on Atheism and Deism: or, Deism Prov’d to Be Worse than Atheism; […], London: […] H[enry] Carpenter, […], →OCLC, page 59
Also used as
miscopying is also the present participle and gerund of miscopy.
Forms of miscopying
| plural | miscopyings |
|---|
Questions about miscopying
- What does miscopying mean?
- Miscopying means the act of something being miscopied.
- What part of speech is miscopying?
- Miscopying is a noun.
- What is the plural of miscopying?
- The plural of miscopying is miscopyings.
Words near miscopying in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: miscopying (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “miscopying.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/miscopying. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.