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misrelation

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

erroneous relation or narration

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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 [...]

Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From mis- + relation.