Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Wrong comprehension; misunderstanding.
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- noun An
incorrect understanding of something.
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Examples
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Add the vagueness that comes from (albeit excellent) translation, and the fact that the translation would occasionally cut off for a second because my mic seemed to be interfering with my headphones, and I sort of didn't want to be throwing in my tuppence-worth based on miscomprehension of the points being made by others.
Archive 2009-11-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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The very content of a text may be open to multiple interpretations on account of ambiguity, shifts of significance over time, or simple miscomprehension, on a literal level never mind on the figurative.
Archive 2009-03-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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In between, the volatile combination of trammelled adults and frustrated teenagers explodes in a firework display of pain and mutual miscomprehension.
Love, Love, Love - review Clare Brennan 2010
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The very content of a text may be open to multiple interpretations on account of ambiguity, shifts of significance over time, or simple miscomprehension, on a literal level never mind on the figurative.
Arguing With Geeks 11 Hal Duncan 2009
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Add the vagueness that comes from (albeit excellent) translation, and the fact that the translation would occasionally cut off for a second because my mic seemed to be interfering with my headphones, and I sort of didn't want to be throwing in my tuppence-worth based on miscomprehension of the points being made by others.
Famous in Finland, Fixture in France Hal Duncan 2009
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Science is not an individual not comprehending a paper, writing a blog based on his miscomprehension, and then being corrected.
A Sister Soljah Moment EliRabett 2010
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Your comment is a remarkable example of bias leading to miscomprehension.
Modern humans may have inherited some Neanderthal genes - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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This latest account of the murder of Crazy Horse of the Lakota Sioux in 1877 is a complex, detailed and multilevel tale of greed, bad faith, racism and miscomprehension on both sides.
Best audiobooks of 2010 Post 2010
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Black Africans have lived on the rim of their valley looking across at black Americans with suspicion and mistrust -- a result of miscomprehension.
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I'm sorry to say that so far it resembles nothing so much as the outbreak of World War I-- a melee of accident, error, misjudgment, malice and miscomprehension.
The Guns Of February 2008
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