mis-style

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These cynics mis-style themselves great philosophers; great heroes; great men: fancying, because they despise a sensation which they have rendered themselves incapable of feeling, that they are elevated “above the heads of the people;” whereas they are, in many respects, sunk below the common level of mankind.

Vicissitudes in Genteel Life 1794