misrecount

misrecount

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ recount

Verb

misrecount (third-person singular simple present misrecounts, present participle misrecounting, simple past and past participle misrecounted)

1. To recount inaccurately; misrelate; to tell an untrue version of events.
   • 1895, Edward Maitland, “An Explanation By Mr. E. Maitland”, in William Thomas Stead, editor, Borderland: A Quarterly Review and Index, volume 2, page 178:

     I write, without a particle of feeling against Mr. Lillie, for I know him to be altogether friendly to my late colleague and myself, and even while inadvertently misrecounting her history, he writes of her in a most reverential tone.

   • 1902, Sir William Monson, ‎Michael Oppenheim, The Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson, page 341:

     So far from the Queen having ordered him back, he would not have written but that his coming back would be misrecounted to her if he did not.

   • 1998, ESQ. - Volume 44, page 139:

     Witnesses may misconstrue and misrecount what they see for a variety of reasons other than the inherent unreliability of sensory perception and the inevitable bias of retrospective narrativizing — and Hannah's defense raised several further hypotheses to explain the incriminating testimony presented at her trial.