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

This is, of course, to misconceive the Evangelist’s meaning.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Dods, Marcus

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 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

They have been used to show that we misconceive the scheme of Edwards, when we ascribe to him the doctrine of fate.

From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor