Mispublish

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To publish in a way that contains errors.

    "With regard to the proposed constitution, it seems that the newspapers have mispublished the delegates from Kentucky and the governor informs me that they are to a man opposed to it —He seems to be fixing in favor of it, and this stroke of the Judiciary will have some effect upon his mind and perhaps on the minds of others shewing the incompetency ofour present government to maintain us in society."

Example

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"With regard to the proposed constitution, it seems that the newspapers have mispublished the delegates from Kentucky and the governor informs me that they are to a man opposed to it —He seems to be fixing in favor of it, and this stroke of the Judiciary will have some effect upon his mind and perhaps on the minds of others shewing the incompetency ofour present government to maintain us in society."

Etymology

From mis- + publish.

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