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misknow
verb as in misconceive
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verb as in misread
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verb as in mistake
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verb as in misunderstand
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Example Sentences
Misknow, mis-nō′, v.t. to misapprehend.—n.
Byron did not misknow himself, nor misapprehend the most marked turn of his own character when he wrote the lines— I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the universe and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
Better to know them all than misknow them.
Why should we misknow one another, fight not against the enemy but against ourselves, from mere difference of uniform?
It would be greatly to misknow Gibbon to suppose that his studies at Lausanne were restricted to the learned languages.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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