misview
misview verb: to view incorrectly; to misinterpret.
Verb
misview (third-person singular simple present misviews, present participle misviewing, simple past and past participle misviewed)
- To view incorrectly; to misinterpret.
- It is, therefore, highly illogical, while subordinating the syllogism to the readier and more direct method of induction, to misview its legitimate function and to detract from the signal service it has rendered in establishing many important truths.1874, Annual Report of the Regents of the University of the State of New York, page 710
- We think the Forest Service should be called to task for their deliberate manipulating of the DEAS to lead the public to misview Native American intent or ideas.1992, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs, Religious Freedom Act
- To view inappropriately; to take an incorrect stance towards.
- Often, we have not been taught effective ways of establishing a friendship with the opposite gender and we often misview the other person as a sex object.2006, Belinda Liau, True Leaders, page 104
- She concludes "That Damis is required to misview Memnon in order to gain his epiphanic experience implies that pious viewers need something else in order to engage correctly with the anthropomorphic images of traditional Greek religion."2018, Patricia A. Rosenmeyer, The Language of Ruins, page 95
Noun
misview (plural misviews)
- An incorrect attitude or interpretation
- The Sessions Judge has awarded the maximum sentence allowed by law for the offence of which (under his misview of the law ) he has convicted the prisoners under s 115 of the Penal Code, viz., "abetting of the commission of an offence punishable with transportation for life, if that offence be not...1885, The Bengal Law Reports of Decisions of the High Court at Fort William, page 447
- It's just...trying to reinforce our view of ...or misview of Americans and Americanism, you know, having those children sing “God Bless America”!2005, Charlotte Brunsdon, David Morley, The Nationwide Television Studies, page 193
Examples of misview in a sentence
- Snodgrass has referred to Hitler as a man who hated being born and has argued that this desire to attain omnipotence through annihilation pointed back to a 'shocking misview of the birth trauma'.2011, Matthew Boswell, Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film, page 72:
- It is a widely spread misview that weak commutativity does not exclude the ratio scale.2013, Horst Zuse, A Framework of Software Measurement, page 376:
Forms of misview
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | misviews |
| present participle | misviewing |
| past participle | misviewed |
| past | misviewed |
| Noun | |
| plural | misviews |
Origin of misview
From mis- + view.
Questions about misview
- What does misview mean?
- Misview means to view incorrectly; to misinterpret.
- How do you use misview in a sentence?
- Snodgrass has referred to Hitler as a man who hated being born and has argued that this desire to attain omnipotence through annihilation pointed back to a 'shocking misview of the birth trauma'.
- What part of speech is misview?
- Misview can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of misview?
- The past tense of misview is misviewed.
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