misconceive

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Regrettably, he and they misconceive the application of the U.S.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2023

People misconceive reality, according to his diagnosis, because they think about it without imagination or by rote.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was scarcely possible that she could misconceive.

From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne

Nobody who has read the striking essay in which these words appear could a moment misconceive their author's meaning.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various

But to estimate the pontificate of Gregory by the disasters of its closing years would be to misconceive its significance for the history of the papacy entirely.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various