misconceive

Example Sentences

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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

"Then, Se�ora, they would misconceive that authority," the politic prelate hurriedly replied.

From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by Cooper, J. Fenimore

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

It was scarcely possible that she could misconceive.

From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne