Misrelation
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 erroneous relation or narration countable, uncountable
"a. 1663, John Bramhall, letter to the Marquis of Newcastle But as mine aim, in the first discourse, was only to press home those things in writing which had been agitated between us by word of mouth (a course much to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations, less subject to mistakes and misrelations […]"
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More examples"a. 1663, John Bramhall, letter to the Marquis of Newcastle But as mine aim, in the first discourse, was only to press home those things in writing which had been agitated between us by word of mouth (a course much to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations, less subject to mistakes and misrelations […]"
Etymology
From mis- + relation.
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