Misrelation

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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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"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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