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English
Etymology
From mis- + vocalize.
Verb
misvocalize (third-person singular simple present misvocalizes, present participle misvocalizing, simple past and past participle misvocalized)
- To vocalize incorrectly.
1981, Gordon Douglas Young, Ugarit in Retrospect, page 120:Notice further that Stuart either misvocalizes or miscounts the third line of the tri-colon (wayiqrabu gives ten syllables; Stuart vocalizes wayi-qrab but still gives the syllable count as ten);
2013, Jack R. Lundbom, Deuteronomy: A Commentary, page 425:For example, in the OT vowels of the Hebrew word for “shame” ( בושה) served to misvocalize Ashtart to Ashtoreth (1 Kgs 11:5, 33), Baal to Bosheth (Hos 9:10), and Melek to Molech (Jer 32:35; 2 Kgs 23:10).
2018, Saul A. Kripke, Reference and Existence: The John Locke Lectures, page 70:The name later came to be misvocalized and misconstrued as if there were such a pagan god.