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1547 R. Record Vrinal of Physick Ep. Ded. sig. A3^v But if he be not only vnlerned, but also shameles, so that he wyl blame that he perceyueth not, & correcte that he knoweth not, and mysse interprete, that he vnderstandeth not.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. i. 18 Neere to the King in bloud, and neere in loue, Till you did make him misinterpret me. View more context for this quotation

1601 in A. I. Cameron Warrender Papers (1932) II. 386 That all sclanderous moins may be stopit that vald misinterprit me to your majestie.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvii. 153 False Teachers, that..mis-interpret the Law of Nature.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 80. ⁋1 All their Words and Actions were misinterpreted by each other.

1791 T. Paine Rights of Man i. 37 While the characters of men are forming.., there is a reciprocal suspicion, and a disposition to misinterpret each other.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Charles I iii, in Wks. (1870) II. 392 Mark too, my lord, that this expression strikes His Majesty, if I misinterpret not.

1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. xxxii. 63 They entirely misinterpreted the significance of the stories.

1924 P. G. Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror 189 Pilbeam would have been amazed if he had known that anybody could possibly so misinterpret the position of affairs.

1986 D. Koontz Strangers iii. vi. 619 When we first viewed some of the videodisks..we apparently misinterpreted what we were seeing.

1624 Trag. Nero iv Discontents Risen from misinterpreted disgraces.

1848 T. De Quincey Life & Adventures Goldsmith in N. Brit. Rev. May 211 To explain anew misinterpreted facts.

1992 S. Rose Making of Memory (BNC) 197 He died without knowing it, and the true significance of peptides was discovered by others without reference to his premature and misinterpreted finding.

1563 Trans. Shropshire Archæol. & Nat. Hist. Soc. (1881) 4 203 The abusing misinterpreting or mistaking of anie of theis ordinaunces aforesaid.

1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Concl. Take heed of mis-interpreting: for that, instead of doing good, will but thy self abuse: By mis-interpreting evil insues. View more context for this quotation

1989 J. Tatelbaum You don't have to Suffer (1990) ii. xi. 56 Mishearing or misinterpreting is another aspect of personalizing. There are times when we dismiss reality and write it our own way.