Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or fact of misappreciating.
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- noun A
failure to correctly and completelyunderstand ; an incorrectnotion orbelief that is a result of such a failure. - noun dated An
observed failure toappreciate the proper worth of a person, an act or a thing.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Success hung on maintaining them in this fatal misappreciation.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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Through a complete misappreciation of the situation, Wrede came to the conclusion that the Emperor and the main body of his army were retiring along the more northerly road to Coblenz, and that his force would only be faced by a dispirited flank column of 20,000 men at the most.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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Complacency led to the rejection of all schemes of modernization, and overconfidence resulted in a complete misappreciation of what was needed to face Napoleon.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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Through a complete misappreciation of the situation, Wrede came to the conclusion that the Emperor and the main body of his army were retiring along the more northerly road to Coblenz, and that his force would only be faced by a dispirited flank column of 20,000 men at the most.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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Complacency led to the rejection of all schemes of modernization, and overconfidence resulted in a complete misappreciation of what was needed to face Napoleon.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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One of the elder professors of Yale had fallen into a temporary misappreciation with the students, who received his instructions, to say the least, with an ill-concealed indifference.
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Bacon went so far before his age as to condemn himself to solitude, to misappreciation, and to posthumous neglect.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various
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Upon what a neglect or misappreciation of values the proceed!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various
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He seems to have thought that if his policy was right in itself, Congressmen ought to vote for it, without the satisfaction of personal arguments, a singular misappreciation of human nature.
Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. Charles Seymour 1924
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Nothing authorises such an accusation, for limitation of a sphere is not misappreciation of every legitimate exercise.
A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson Edouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy 1912
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