Misextend

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To extend wrongly.

    "We have seen what an aptness there is to misapply and misextend St Paul's principles of unity, and to seek support in them for that which in fact they rather exclude."

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"We have seen what an aptness there is to misapply and misextend St Paul's principles of unity, and to seek support in them for that which in fact they rather exclude."

Etymology

From mis- + extend.

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