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单词 misanswer
释义

misanswern.

Forms: see mis- prefix1 and answer n.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mis- prefix1, answer n.
Etymology: < mis- prefix1 + answer n. Compare earlier misanswer v.
Obsolete.
1. A wrong answer.
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the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > an answer, response > wrong
misanswer1496
1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) v. xix. 222/2 Yf a clerke erre in answerynge and by his mys answere folowed manslaughter.
2. Failure to correspond to requirements.
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1614 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. II. O.T. vi. 156 Hee that after the misse-answere of the one talent, would not trust the euill seruant with a second.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

misanswerv.

Brit. /ˌmɪsˈɑːnsə/, /ˌmɪsˈansə/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈænsər/
Forms: see mis- prefix1 and answer v.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mis- prefix1, answer v.
Etymology: < mis- prefix1 + answer v.
transitive. To give a wrong or inappropriate answer to. Also (in early use, now only in Irish English (northern)): to reply to (a person) disrespectfully.
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the mind > attention and judgement > answer > answer [verb (transitive)] > wrongly
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a1325 St. Aldhelm (Corpus Cambr.) 81 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 213 (MED) Namore hi nolde misanswere him.
a1425 Rule St. Benet (Lansd.) (1902) 24 Yef ani man askis hir ohte þat es a-gain resun, sho sal noht..mis-ancewer þam.
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 26 All women that ben gret herted and misansueringe her husbondes.
1535 Horæ in usum Sarum 155 I haue synned..whan I haue mysanswered myn euen chrysten reioysynge.
1916 Psychol. Rev. Sept. 362 Even the simplest questions were at times misanswered.
1958 Mind 67 407 The parent who misanswers his child's embarrassing question by saying ‘The stork brought you.’
1983 ELH 50 347 Questions of when, exactly, the poem was written..are compounded by equally knotty ones, which too many readers ignore, gloss over, or misanswer.
1997 P. Tulloch in C. Jones Edinb. Hist. Scots Lang. xi. 403 Misanswer..is created anew in the twentieth century in Ulster, where it means ‘give a rude answer’.
2003 D. R. Olson Psychol. Theory & Educ. Reform ix. 140 If there are three roses and two tulips, when asked whether there are more roses or flowers, the child may ‘misanswer’ that there are more roses because there are only two tulips.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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