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▪ I. misˈleading, vbl. n.
[mis-1 3.]
The action of the verb mislead; † misconduct.
a1300Cursor M. 27926 Fole behalding, misleding o late. 1480Caxton Descr. Brit. 22 Scottes and pictes by misleding of Maximus the tyraunt pursiewed Britayne. 1597Pilgr. Parnass. v. (1886) 23 Nere let the pilgrims to this laurell mounte Fainte, or retire..Through the misleading of some amorous boye. 1645Milton Colast. Wks. 1851 IV. 348 Which may in time bring in round fees to the Licencer, and wretched mis-leading to the People. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. II. 408 To other persons perhaps they might prove misleadings, stumbling-blocks. 1884Law Rep. 27 Chanc. Div. 630 There has not been any misleading.
▪ II. misˈleading, ppl. a.
[mis-1 2.]
That leads astray or causes to err.
1638Junius Paint. Ancients 10 Such a mis-leading labyrinth of confused..precepts. 1649Milton Eikon. B 2, [A blindness] more gross or more misleading. 1834De Quincey Autob. Sk. Wks. 1854 II. 137 Natives as well as strangers..have fallen victims..to the misleading and confounding effects of deep mists. 1864Pusey Lect. Daniel (1876) 487 It would then have been simply misleading, to have used these words at all. 1878Jevons Primer Pol. Econ. 47, I have heard it said that land is capital, intelligence is capital, and so forth. These are all misleading expressions.
Hence misˈleadingly adv., misˈleadingness.
1862T. A. Trollope Lent. Journey i. 2 The period of the, somewhat misleadingly so called, renaissance. a1866J. Grote Treat. Moral Ideals (1876) 379 An element of deceptiveness and misleadingness. 1881Contemp. Rev. May 828 The misleadingness of the utterances of disease and grief. 1957Essays in Crit. VII. 342 The misleadingness of any implication that I was scraping the barrel for evidence. 1975Nature 10 Jan. 79/2 One example of the misleadingness of demonstration must suffice. |