misinflect
English
Etymology
mis- + inflect
Verb
misinflect (third-person singular simple present misinflects, present participle misinflecting, simple past and past participle misinflected)
- To inflect incorrectly.
- 1869, The New York Teacher, and the American Educational Monthly, page 264:
- Thus the student is taught from the very beginning to misinflect an important class of German nouns.
- 1980, Elinor Shaffer, Comparative Criticism:
- In consulting them, the reader should bear in mind that the singers use a variety of hiatus bridges ( j, h, v, etc.; all italicized in text) and not seldom misinflect words (sometimes under the pressure of sound-patterns).
- 1989 ·, Richard Fleming, Michael Payne, The Senses of Stanley Cavell, page 234:
- This is one reason why one inclines to quotation in discussing his writing . Any paraphrase that even slightly misinflects his descriptions runs the risk of near-total distortion.
- 1998, Starling Lawrence, Montenegro: A Novel, page 31:
- They managed, in repeating his name like the echoing mountains, to mispronounce or misinflect every syllable of it.