misapprehension

• The misapprehension, the oppression under which I suffered in my early years, prepared me to bear similar evils later on, and especially those which weigh upon me in the present circumstances of my life. —  Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel
• Though he assumed this to be a misapprehension, the result of fatigue, the longer he regarded the lizard, the sharper this impression became. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 04-05 - October-November 2002
• The misapprehension was at least no greater than that which prompted some full-grown man to ship a zinc house to the one spot in the world where the most readily splitting lumber was plentiful. —  A Backward Glance at Eighty
• It is to be admitted that expressions have proceeded from the national administration which naturally gave rise to misapprehension, and therefore we beg to speak to you on this subject more fully. —  The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The poem “To William” was written under this misapprehension, although when he left England in 1818, Shelley's chief reason, as given in his letter to Godwin, was on account of his health. —  Mrs. Shelley

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