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Example sentences for "misreading"

Lexicographically close words:
mispronunciation; misquotation; misquote; misquoted; misread; misrepresent; misrepresentation; misrepresentations; misrepresented; misrepresenting
  1. In thinking of the possible word for which tooth was a misprint, or rather misreading .

  2. The first was doubtless an intentional alteration by the editor, which the printer took in at the wrong place; the second a misreading of 'lation'.

  3. To say that this 'intimation under the circumstances must have sounded very like a declaration of war' on the part of Gloucester[794] is a total misreading of the matter.

  4. The idea that the struggle between nations is a part of the evolutionary law of man's advance involves a profound misreading of the biological analogy.

  5. Despite the apparent force of these propositions, they are founded upon a gross misreading of certain facts, and especially upon a gross misapplication of a certain biological analogy.

  6. The entire conception of the work is itself an illusion, based upon a profound misreading of human action.

  7. A misreading of the watch, so that I roused myself and Walter at 3.

  8. Fenn has 'Sir Thowys' in his left-hand copy, which we cannot help thinking a misreading of 'Sir T.

  9. For the corruption, compare the common misreading of locum for solum.

  10. Pondus would then be a (mistaken) gloss that has displaced momen from the text; nomen would be a simple misreading of momen.

  11. He supposed that Chaucer got the name Anelida from a misreading of the name Anaetidem or Anaetida in some Latin MS.

  12. The false reading twelve arose from misreading the symbol '.

  13. Not to be invented by misreading the title, 84.

  14. We must be careful not to invent an author by misreading a title, as was done by the cataloguer who entered the Relatio felicis agonis of certain martyrs as the work of one Felix Ago.

  15. Evidently a misreading of "Ingrame Umphrevell," as is clear from Bk.

  16. In a large majority of cases, therefore, the misreading consists in a complete substitution.

  17. Not that anything like the opposite occurs in misreading, but the importunity of the idea content which leads to misreading is nevertheless much more conspicuous than the suppression to which the latter may previously have been subjected.

  18. Here was she misreading him and misreading him in some strange way to her peril and ruin.

  19. Sleeman's misreading of ustâd as ustân, and his consequent blunders, have misled innumerable writers.

  20. In cursive Persian the misreading is easy and natural.

  21. It is accordingly never safe to discard the record of it, unless under strong convictions as to a misreading of its evidence.

  22. This clerical or typographical error as to Cabot’s Christian name probably arose from a misreading of Martyr’s language in Dec.

  23. Galahad--a probable misreading of the original French.

  24. I think it is possible that the name given by Wolfram von Eschenbach to Arthur's son, Ilinot, may rest upon a misreading of Lohot; the story connected with the latter is certainly curiously archaic in detail.

  25. He must therefore be well aware that there can be no possible question of Chretien's having introduced the motif of Guinevere's faithlessness; that is one of the oldest and most original features of the Arthurian story.

  26. Perhaps a perversion of slew, or a misreading of swop in badly written MS.

  27. Matri-pakshe seems to be a misreading for bhartripakshe.

  28. Murti is a misreading for apurti or discontentedness.

  29. The Bengal texts, in the second line of verse 7, contain an error, Saktincha is evidently a misreading for Sokancha.

  30. A good many of the bishop's blunders arise in this way from misreading his Bible.

  31. He makes another blunder of this kind, and as usual charges it on Moses, in his misreading of Leviticus xxiii.

  32. The title of Nubian Geography, based upon Sionita and Hezronita's misreading of a passage relating to Nubia and the Nile, is entirely unwarranted and misleading.

  33. Some very extraordinary blunders have been made by the ignorant misreading of an author's contractions.

  34. A most amusing instance of a misreading may be mentioned here, although it is not a literary blunder.

  35. It seems to me an obvious and childish misreading of human psychology.

  36. The mistake is due to misreading the original Lat.

  37. The error may easily have arisen from misreading iij as uj.

  38. It is clear that the reading thought arose from misreading the y of youthe as th (th).

  39. Here is a simple misprint caused by the misreading of I for J and n for u; but this can easily be set right.

  40. Devendreshu is evidently a misreading for Daitendreshu.

  41. It may be a misreading for Uddanaka, which is the well-known Cirisha or the Mimosa Sirisca of Roxburgh.


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