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misimitation

misimitation noun: the act of misimitating; defective imitation.

Noun

misimitation (countable and uncountable, plural misimitations)

  1. The act of misimitating; defective imitation.
    • All of them have their allowed and profitable use in God's Church, though not in so high a nature; except that of extreme unction; which as it is an apish misimitation of that extraordinary course which the apostolic times used in their cures of the sick, so it is grossly misapplied to other...1863, Joseph Hall, edited by Philip Wynter, The Works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall - Volume 8, page 699
    • We have a critical tradition that is a misimitation of the sciences, for while science seeks out the significant qualities of things, anesthetic criticism seeks out only the most easily enumerable.1971, James Joyce Quarterly - Volumes 9-10, page 295

Examples of misimitation in a sentence

  • The Assassins talk ludicrously—This is a most egregious misimitation of Shakespere—Schiller should not have attempted Tragicomedy & none but Shakespere has succeeded.2018, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Complete Poetical Works of Coleridge:
  • One does not hear one's own mistakes or misimitations unless they are the ones on which one is expressly concentrating one's intellectual attention.2018, Wilga M. Rivers, Teaching Foreign Language Skills, page 503:

Forms of misimitation

pluralmisimitations

Origin of misimitation

From mis- + imitate + -ation.

Questions about misimitation

What does misimitation mean?
Misimitation means the act of misimitating; defective imitation.
How do you use misimitation in a sentence?
The Assassins talk ludicrously—This is a most egregious misimitation of Shakespere—Schiller should not have attempted Tragicomedy & none but Shakespere has succeeded.
What part of speech is misimitation?
Misimitation is a noun.
What is the plural of misimitation?
The plural of misimitation is misimitations.

Words near misimitation in the dictionary

  1. Misimans
  2. misimitate
  3. misimitated
  4. misimitates
  5. misimitating
  6. misimitation
  7. misimitations
  8. misimplant
  9. misimplantation
  10. misimplanted
  11. misimplanting

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