missituate
missituate verb: to situate incorrectly.
Verb
missituate (third-person singular simple present missituates, present participle missituating, simple past and past participle missituated)
- To situate incorrectly.
- Donald W. Hanson mounts what, to my mind, is a not terribly convincing case that Hobbes has been missituated as a founding father of realism, and calls Hobbes's mode of thought "unrealistic," "apolitical," and "transhistorical.'"1995, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Women and War, page 88
- This, of course, is not to deny that suffering tends to impair the functioning of a human, that it tends to inhibit its teleological sojourn, but it is to suggest that Taylor's teleological account of benefits and harms, at least insofar as this phenomenon is concerned, missituates the badness of...1998, Mark H. Bernstein, On Moral Considerability: An Essay on Who Morally Matters, page 91
Forms of missituate
| third-person singular present | missituates |
|---|---|
| present participle | missituating |
| past participle | missituated |
| past | missituated |
Origin of missituate
From mis- + situate.
Questions about missituate
- What does missituate mean?
- Missituate means to situate incorrectly.
- What part of speech is missituate?
- Missituate is a verb.
- What is the past tense of missituate?
- The past tense of missituate is missituated.
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