Misreflect
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To mirror inaccurately; to reflect a distorted image of.
"To the censorious world, who like false glasses Mingling their own irregular figures, Misreflect the object, I fhall appear Some finful woman, sold to infamy."
- 2 To present an inaccurate description of; to give an inaccurate impression of.
"Lest this record misreflect what the testimony was, I understood that the witness was talking in that percentage about failures, which would of course include dialing errors."
- 3 To think about in a distorted way
"The gist of this horribly repugnant scene is that a person can be forced, because of the threat of unbearable pain, to misreflect upon his perceptions."
Example
More examples"To the censorious world, who like false glasses Mingling their own irregular figures, Misreflect the object, I fhall appear Some finful woman, sold to infamy."
Etymology
From mis- + reflect.
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