misconceive
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Regrettably, he and they misconceive the application of the U.S.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2023
People misconceive reality, according to his diagnosis, because they think about it without imagination or by rote.
From Time Magazine Archive
Plato—whom we refer to, because he is the coryphaeus of all the diverse host of Greek philosophy—seems to overestimate or rather to misconceive the place of knowledge.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Lastly, it is to misconceive the nature of the mind to make of it something passive and inert.
From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier
Ah, my dear friends, you entirely misconceive this extraordinary proposal.
From 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance by Ossip Schubin
The two actors play a couple whose engagement is thrown into chaos by a single shocking secret in this misconceived rom-com from Kristoffer Borgli.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
They have also urged the court to dismiss Patil's "misconceived and premature" plea challenging the investigation against him.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
Those changes enabled the bandmates, friends since they were teens, to become even closer, despite any misconceived notion that they’ve been at odds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
The panel also described Mr Benton's arguments as "misconceived or erroneous", finding the sanction was "neither unreasonable nor disproportionate".
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2024
Bruno’s revisions to, and misunderstandings of, Copernicus were misconceived.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
It proved to be nothing but a reconnoissance, and showed that Hood was strangely misconceiving the situation.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Jacob Dolson Cox
They think, poor misconceiving companions! that we be all a-dying for them.
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt
"I wonder not at thy surprise; it is a feeling that hath overcome all others, through the late extraordinary events," answered the queen, evidently misconceiving the meaning of her friend's words.
From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by J. Fenimore Cooper
We have therefore insisted on the rational character of the idea of the good, but without misconceiving the part of sentiment.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin
Without taking rest or food, Shamus proceeded to London Bridge, often put out of his course by wrong directions, and as often by forgetting and misconceiving true ones.
From Stories by English Authors: Ireland by Samuel Lover
