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单词 misimagination
释义

misimagination

English

Etymology

mis- + imagination or misimagine + -ation

Noun

misimagination (countable and uncountable, plural misimaginations)

  1. Wrong imagination; delusion.
    • 1595, Sir John Smythe, Instructions, Observations, and Orders Mylitarie., page 84:
      Vnto which their misimaginations I say, that it is not one mans worke; although it were Iulius Caesar himselfe, to reduce a whole armie into diuers forms of battle with celeritic when they are to march in the enimies Countrey, or to fight with the Enemie, but that the same must be of necessitie perfourmed by diuers Chiefetains, and higher and lower officers of the armie;
    • 1618, Joseph Hall, The Righteous Mammon (sermon)
      Who can without indignation look upon the prodigies which this misimagination produces in that other sex; to the shame of their husbands, the scorn of religion, the damnation of their own souls?
    • 1971, Thomas R. Edwards, Imagination and Power: A Study of Poetry on Public Themes, page 135:
      When politics, with all the misimaginations of self it implies, is no longer a strong enough figure of antagonism, the old dialectic can only be transformed into a confrontation between the solitary self and death.
    • 2006, Shaun Nichols, The Architecture of the Imagination, page 59:
      It is not easy to say what it is to misimagine another person. It is easier to give a useful description of some other kinds of misimagination.
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