Verb
To view incorrectly; to misinterpret.
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It is, therefore, highly illogical, while subordinating the syllogism to the readier and more direct method of induction, to misview its legitimate function and to detract from the signal service it has rendered in establishing many important truths.
We think the Forest Service should be called to task for their deliberate manipulating of the DEAS to lead the public to misview Native American intent or ideas.
But, depending a little on how open one's concept of the naturalistic is, and how much one expects by way of completeness in any nauralistic explanation, such a presumption can be inevitably to misview it.
If his collaborative projects in visual media diminish Wright's anxiety about misrepresentation, so too does his literal distance from the audience that might potentially misread (or misview) his work.
If we try to comprehend the intensely psychically oriented consciousness of the ancients, for example, or even the consciousness of the Renaissance using only or modern, rational definitions of intellect and sentiment, we will not be able to truly comprehend them at all for the very good reason that they did not view thought, intellect, sentiments, and thus existence, in the way we today view them or rather, misview them.
To view inappropriately; to take an incorrect stance towards.
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Often, we have not been taught effective ways of establishing a friendship with the opposite gender and we often misview the other person as a sex object.
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She concludes "That Damis is required to misview Memnon in order to gain his epiphanic experience implies that pious viewers need something else in order to engage correctly with the anthropomorphic images of traditional Greek religion."
Noun
An incorrect attitude or interpretation
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The Sessions Judge has awarded the maximum sentence allowed by law for the offence of which (under his misview of the law ) he has convicted the prisoners under s 115 of the Penal Code, viz., "abetting of the commission of an offence punishable with transportation for life, if that offence be not committed in consequence of the abetment," or as he puts it, "the said offence having been committed not in consequence of that abetment."
It's just...trying to reinforce our view of ...or misview of Americans and Americanism, you know, having those children sing “God Bless America”!
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Snodgrass has referred to Hitler as a man who hated being born and has argued that this desire to attain omnipotence through annihilation pointed back to a 'shocking misview of the birth trauma'.
It is a widely spread misview that weak commutativity does not exclude the ratio scale.