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mistransporting

mistransporting is the present participle and gerund of mistransport.

Meaning of mistransport

Verb

mistransport (third-person singular simple present mistransports, present participle mistransporting, simple past and past participle mistransported)

  1. To transport the wrong thing or to the wrong place.
    • One point made well to a hearer listening in the receptivity of a worshiping community means infinetely more to the life of faith than a classroom lecture on Christology mistransported to the sanctuary.1987, Gabriel Fackre, The Christian Story - Volume 2, page 338
  2. To mislead by strong emotion.
    • And can ye then with patience think that any ingenuous Christian should be so far mistransported as to condemn a good prayer because, as it is in his heart, so it is in his book too ?1863, Joseph Hall, The Works of the Joseph Hall, page 285

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Questions about mistransporting

What is mistransporting the present participle and gerund of?
Mistransporting is the present participle and gerund of mistransport.

Words near mistransporting in the dictionary

  1. mistransmits
  2. mistransmitted
  3. mistransmitting
  4. mistransport
  5. mistransported
  6. mistransporting
  7. mistransports
  8. mistranspose
  9. mistransposed
  10. mistransposes
  11. mistransposing

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