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English
Etymology
From mis- + revise.
Verb
misrevise (third-person singular simple present misrevises, present participle misrevising, simple past and past participle misrevised)
- To revise in a manner that makes something worse.
1988, Karen Vaught-Alexander, Contexts which Connect Writers, Readers, Texts, page 53:Inexperienced or ineffective reader-writers often misrevise their drafts, their plans and goals.
2021, John C. Poirier, The Invention of the Inspired Text:In 1789, the latter-day Neoplatonist Thomas Taylor (1789: 2.282) published a translation of On the Cave of the Nymphs, in which he rendered θεόπνοος as "nourished by a divine spirit" —a rendering that arguably captures some of the sense of a life-giving force. (Unfortunately [and inexplicably], Taylor [1823: 177] misrevised his translation of θεόπνοος, some thirty years later, to “inspired by divinity.")
2022, Robert Lowell, Memoirs:Not all of Ransom's changes are disastrous, some improve, almost all show surprising ways in which passages can be turned into variations. We are given a thousand opportunities to misrevise.