Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A false or erroneous correction.
Wiktionary
- n. An erroneous correction; a mistake in correcting a previous mistake.
Etymologies
- mis- + correction (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Walter Scott was called in council, and offered one miscorrection which still blots the page.”
“Looks to me akin to a double negative, or a hasty miscorrection. "who wrote on leaving a kindly note" and "who on leaving left a kindly note" both work.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘miscorrection’.
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Incorrectum
Mistakes, Errors and Accidents.
nihilartikel, solecism, bevue, corrigendum, acyrology, cacoepy, fido, hamartithia, jeofail, mésalliance, mumpsimus, pseudochronism and 63 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for miscorrection.
mialuthien See Linguists and word-formation. Jul 22, 2008