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ˌmisunderˈstood, ppl. a.
[mis-1 2.]
Improperly understood; taken in a wrong sense. Also absol.
1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits (1616) 172 Three mis⁓vnderstood lawes, which they haue learned at all aduentures. 1711Atterbury Serm. (1734) I. xi. 291 A mis⁓understood Place of Scripture may overthrow One of the Prime Articles of Faith. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 219 The most dangerous shock that the state ever received through a misunderstood arrangement of religion. 1887Stedman Vict. Poets xi. 389 America, with her strange..misunderstood yearning for a rightful share of the culture..of the older world. 1892Zangwill Bow Mystery 51 The incurable interest of humanity in the Unknown and the Misunderstood.
Hence ˌmisunderˈstoodness.
1826Bentham in Westm. Rev. VI. 484 From non-understoodness or misunderstoodness comes oppositeness to expectation. |