misrelegate
misrelegate verb: to relegate inappropriately.
Verb
misrelegate (third-person singular simple present misrelegates, present participle misrelegating, simple past and past participle misrelegated)
- To relegate inappropriately.
- "Job-consciousness," that suggestive concept so regularly re-examined and so frequently misrelegated to the mythology of the past, is, in my estimation, still a useful, dynamic insight.1965, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, volume 19, page 625
- However, this anticipates what needs to be shown, and ignores what I have just claimed: the widespread failure to recognize that the dialogue is indeed about virtue, being instead misrelegated to the specialists of academic epistemology, with only its famous "paradox" (perhaps along with Socrates'...2001, Zdravko Planinc, Politics, Philosophy, Writing: Plato's Art of Caring for Souls, page 63
Forms of misrelegate
| third-person singular present | misrelegates |
|---|---|
| present participle | misrelegating |
| past participle | misrelegated |
| past | misrelegated |
Origin of misrelegate
From mis- + relegate.
Questions about misrelegate
- What does misrelegate mean?
- Misrelegate means to relegate inappropriately.
- What part of speech is misrelegate?
- Misrelegate is a verb.
- What is the past tense of misrelegate?
- The past tense of misrelegate is misrelegated.
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