miscensure

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English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ censure.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɪsˈsɛnʃə(ɹ)/

Verb

miscensure (third-person singular simple present miscensures, present participle miscensuring, simple past and past participle miscensured)

  1. (obsolete) To misjudge.
    • 1618, Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England:
      if we mis-censure your actions, which are euer (as those of men) according to the vogue

Noun

miscensure (plural miscensures)

  1. (obsolete) erroneous judgment
    • 1608, Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes .">…], 3rd edition, London: Humfrey Lownes ], published 1611, →OCLC:
      Your hard Opinions, and mis-Censures

References

miscensure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.