Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Misconstruction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Wrong understanding; misconstruction.
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- noun obsolete Wrong
understanding ;misconstruction . - noun
Disregard ; failure to heed or consider;contempt ;neglect . - verb transitive To
disregard ;fail toheed ;ignore ;neglect .
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Examples
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Too suddenly did he contemn, despise, and misregard him; but too long thereafter, by an untimely and too late repentance, did he do penance for it.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Too suddenly did he contemn, despise, and misregard him; but too long thereafter, by an untimely and too late repentance, did he do penance for it.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Too suddenly did he contemn, despise, and misregard him; but too long thereafter, by an untimely and too late repentance, did he do penance for it.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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There was also a great contempt and misregard showed to the king, in that Shemei, knowing his own evil-deservings, acknowledged (as the truth was) he had received no small favour, and therefore consented to the king’s word as good, and promised obedience.
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630
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