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Example sentences for "misapprehend"

Lexicographically close words:
misapplication; misapplications; misapplied; misapply; misapplying; misapprehended; misapprehension; misapprehensions; misappropriated; misappropriation
  1. You misapprehend the situation; whether wilfully or not I don't know.

  2. Mr. Wilkes, I do not propose to bandy words, and when I have once pointed out that you entirely misapprehend the situation on that subject I have done.

  3. It is easy enough to be astonished at it, still easier to misapprehend it.

  4. Can it be possible that you so utterly misapprehend me?

  5. Then he: "You do misapprehend me, Mistress Constance, if you think I would counsel a man to utter a falsehood, or feign to believe that which in his heart he thinketh to be false.

  6. I looked in a doubtful manner at Sir Francis, feigning to misapprehend his meaning, albeit too clear did it appear to me.

  7. The Northern States in my judgement will not accept it, because they will misapprehend the meaning of it.

  8. The Administration did not misapprehend the drift and intention of Mr. Stevens, and its members saw that it was the first gun fired in a determined war to be waged against its policy and its prestige.

  9. Not only does the learned prelate misapprehend and misapply the texts above quoted to support his theory, but he makes a gratuitous concession, which is at once fatal to his scheme and inconsistent with himself.

  10. If you would do me the honour to listen, you would not misapprehend me.

  11. Not to agitate and hinder her longer, the considerate Clare began talking in a more general way: You quite misapprehend my parents.

  12. You misapprehend me, father; you often do," said Angel with a little impatience.

  13. And what is exactly known people have somehow or other contrived to misapprehend and misapply.

  14. To compare an author of this type and descent to Shakespeare is a trifle unfair; to compare him to Moliere is to misapprehend the differences between pure literature and literature that is also drama.

  15. At one time Jesus seemed to think his hearers might possibly misapprehend him, and he told them plainly that poverty, trouble, sorrow, persecutions in this world, awaited them if they followed him.

  16. They misapprehend him till he is rent with grief at their dullness and hardness of heart.

  17. It is possible to have a great zeal for the Bible and yet quite to misapprehend its object; and to misapprehend its object is to make it both useless and dangerous.

  18. This uncompromising assertion of His own authority He makes in parabolic language; but that no one may misapprehend His meaning He Himself appends the interpretation.

  19. I do not think that I misapprehend your meaning, Thrasymachus, I replied; but still I cannot hear without amazement that you class injustice with wisdom and virtue, and justice with the opposite.

  20. The respectable mediocrity of Chapelain might misapprehend him; the lesser geniuses of Scudery and Mairet might feel alarm at his advent; the envious Claverets and D'Aubignacs might snarl and scribble.

  21. Respecting a pronoun, the main thing is, that the reader perceive clearly for what it stands; and next, that he do not misapprehend its relation of case.

  22. You misapprehend me, sir," Mr. Deeling said, with some solemnity.

  23. I think," he said, "that on the subject of charity Englishmen generally wholly misapprehend the situation.

  24. How dare you say that I can misapprehend anything, wretch?


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misapprehend" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.