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Example sentences for "misconceived"

Lexicographically close words:
mischievous; mischievously; mischievousness; miscible; misconceive; misconceives; misconception; misconceptions; misconduct; misconducted
  1. Word to the populace which, misconceived By ignorance and incapacity, Ends in no such effect as follows cause When I, or you the wise, are reasoned with, So damages what I and you hold dear?

  2. Then say if I have misconceived Your destiny, too readily believed The Kaiser's cause your own!

  3. Why must we always impute a misconceived motive?

  4. Consuello's words, "Why must we always impute a misconceived motive?

  5. Here, especially, the very cautious and moderate doctrine of scholasticism has been largely misconceived and misrepresented by phenomenists and others.

  6. They never commend, nor even mention, justice as it exists in and moulds the internal mind and character of the just man; even though he be unknown, misconceived and detested, by Gods as well as by men.

  7. We have misconceived the meaning of Simonides (replies Polemarchus).

  8. Yet, certain careless objectors have misconceived the plain meaning, so far as to assert that if we would speak of any production as designed, it must first be proved not only intentional but arbitrary.

  9. Mr. Ellis subjoins "That the meaning of the word Analogy was misconceived by S.

  10. The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes--naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.

  11. Be that as it may, to conclude that legal plunder has one of its roots in misconceived philanthropy, is evidently to put intentions out of the question.

  12. Legal plunder has two roots: one of them, as we have already seen, is in human greed; the other is in misconceived philanthropy.

  13. Mr Freeman, I hold, had misconceived the matter altogether.

  14. The divinity attributed to so great a Being and the complete incarnation of the names and attributes of God in so exalted a Person should, under no circumstances, be misconceived or misinterpreted.

  15. This, upon examination, will be found to be made up altogether of false reasoning upon misconceived fact.

  16. I persuade myself, however, that it will be made apparent to every one, that the charge cannot be supported, and that the maxim on which it relies has been totally misconceived and misapplied.

  17. In a very clever way Mendelssohn made not alone the Goettingen scholars Michaelis and Hartmann, but also Dohm, understand that they had misconceived the Jewish question.

  18. All this binds the spirit under an externalism by which the very meaning of spirit is perverted and misconceived at its source, and law and justice, morality and conscience, responsibility and duty are corrupted at their root.

  19. They must have changed their mind very swiftly, for the whole matter is still quite fresh; or rather, Henry's correspondent must have misconceived that part, as he seems to have misconceived the rest.

  20. They saw the two facts, they misconceived their relation.

  21. But whilst they recognised the facts, here again, as in the other two cases, they misconceived the relation.

  22. The principles, or rather some particular principle, of morality may be absolutely misconceived by a community, at some stage of its history, in such a way that actions of a certain kind are not condemned by it.

  23. In both cases, the being to whom prayer is offered is misconceived and misrepresented by polytheism and fetishism; and the misconception is due to want of discrimination and spiritual insight.

  24. Truth misconceived is thereby neither altered nor destroyed; it subsists independently of the reason that perceives it or perceives it ill.

  25. The nature of this supposed offence has been apparently misconceived by Shakspeare and others whom he might have followed.

  26. But surely, Dr Warburton having contended for the reading beaver up, could not have misconceived Vernon's meaning as above.

  27. The former gentleman had apparently misconceived the following passage in Fletcher's Two noble kinsmen, ".

  28. Johnson's note, for he has entirely misconceived the meaning of this part of Timon's speech.

  29. Saint George to thrive is evidently a misconceived paraphrase of the old mode of expression, by improperly changing the substantive to a verb.

  30. It would be easy, agreeable, and irrational to ascribe without further evidence than its badness this misconceived and misshapen scene to some other hand than Shakespeare's.

  31. Even the idea of progress and reform has never been anywhere absent; nothing, in short, of that which constitutes social life has been entirely ignored or misconceived by any religious nation.

  32. Whence it appears, that the writer who most broadly charges others with not understanding the nature of a collective noun, has most of all misconceived it himself.

  33. David Blair, this order of poetic numbers is utterly misconceived and misrepresented.

  34. Nothing can better illustrate the misconceived view that our author seems to have taken of the two opposite theories, (i.

  35. The observations which he has made appear to me to be founded on nothing more than common prejudice, and misconceived notions of the subject.

  36. Herakles at the Parting of the Ways, who seems to have privately criticized the current Gods as mere deifications of useful things and forces, and was later misconceived as teaching that the things and forces were Gods.

  37. Europe drifted towards a dreary imitation and revival of the misconceived failures of the past.

  38. Gautama's disciples unhappily have cared more for the preservation of his tree than of his thought, which from the first they misconceived and distorted.

  39. He probably misconceived every issue upon which he voted.

  40. If it never came from Christ, the writers of those Gospels have misconceived Him altogether, and their record is mere fiction and falsehood.


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