单词 | misrecollection |
释义 | misrecollectionn. Faulty recollection; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [noun] misremembrance1552 misrecollection1807 1807 J. Mackintosh Let. 14 Mar. in Mem. Life Sir J. Mackintosh (1835) I. vi. 341 It is odd enough that it should have probably originated in a misrecollection of some words in..De Natura Deorum. 1818 Champion 20 Dec. in Athenæum (1891) 26 Dec. 865/3 Oblivion, or misrecollection of the past. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. IV. viii. xvi. 261 To enable him..to reflect upon it, without danger of misrecollection. 1922 O. Jespersen Lang. iii. 70 He speaks..of other linguistic changes as well. These he refers to the following causes... (1) Mishearing and misunderstanding; (2) misrecollection. 1990 Lancet 13 Oct. 933/1 There are plenty of chronological misrecollections. 2010 T. De Haven Our Hero 172 Jerry's cri de coeur was full of factual errors and distortions, misrecollections. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1807 |
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