Misaccount
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A bad or wrong account; an incorrect narrative.
"Oakley shows how a misaccount arises from “masculine ambivalence" about birth, which obstructs women from producing new accounts."
- 1 to account badly, wrongfully, or in error transitive
"[…] having transpired in the village previous to the still more remarkable event which had struck dismay into the hearts of young and old, the journey was instantly attributed by those idle talkers who love nothing better than to misaccount for the movements and motives of their neighbours, […]"
Example
More examples"[…] having transpired in the village previous to the still more remarkable event which had struck dismay into the hearts of young and old, the journey was instantly attributed by those idle talkers who love nothing better than to misaccount for the movements and motives of their neighbours, […]"
Etymology
From Middle English misaccounten, equivalent to mis- + account.
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