misconstruction

• As any answer he could make would be liable to misconstruction, he devoted the larger part of it to pointing out the unreasonableness of their dogmatic insistence I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the divine will. —  A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
• The term misconstruction was used by the Congress of 1791 ... as misconstruction is verifiable truth ... the historical proof. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
• The slave-trade, in my judgment, is thus restored Mr. GUTHRIE:--I am satisfied that the article reported by the committee is not susceptible of misconstruction, and I hope we shall not mar the report by adopting the amendment. —  A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861
• And to avoid misconstruction, the last clause of the fifth section of said act, which authorizes the person holding a warrant for the arrest or detention of a fugitive slave to summon to his aid the posse comitatus_, and which declares it to be the duty of all good citizens to assist him in its execution, ought to be so amended as to expressly limit the authority and duty to cases in which there shall be resistance, or danger of resistance or rescue 4. —  A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861
• The reason of all this misconstruction is, we look on his work by parcels,(260) and take it not whole and entire. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

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