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/mɪsrˈidɪŋ/ Listen

Misreading

noun

Misinterpretation caused by inaccurate reading.

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"Misreading" Quotes from Famous Books

... they are writing in a specially archaic manner when they spell "ye'' for "the'' are ignorant of this, and pronounce the article as if it were the pronoun. Dr. Skeat quotes a curious instance of the misreading of the thorn () as p, by which a strange ghost word is evolved. Whitaker, in his edition of Piers Plowman, reads that Christ "polede for man,'' which should be tholede, from tholien, to suffer, as there is no such ...

— Literary Blunders • Henry B. Wheatley

... active, and accustomed to rapid movement. He knew at once that the old servant read the signs of disturbance in his face and manner, and how far he misread them. So, to insure the misreading, he took out his handkerchief, and groaned ...

— Young Mr. Barter's Repentance - From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray • David Christie Murray

... Langdon put down the strange statement of Gish "wandering about in the midst of omens" (misreading id-da-tim for it-lu-tim), he might have asked himself the question, what it could possibly mean. How can one walk ...

— An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic • Anonymous

Words linked to "Misreading" : mistaking, misread, misunderstanding, misinterpretation