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

Let us be careful that we do not misconceive it in one most important particular!

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

"If I do not misconceive them greatly, they must be very unsuitable associates for a young lady educated in a French convent."

From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Lever, Charles James

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