misprision

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"'Twill only be thy first misprision, eh?"

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  1. noun Maladministration of public office.
  2. noun Neglect in preventing or reporting a felony or treason by one not an accessory.
  3. noun An act of sedition against a government or the courts.
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  • Mark started tweeting about a case, bringing up misprision (yes, that's the correct spelling). —  Crimlaw
  • In fact, the only statute mentioning misprision is referring to misprision of treason - an entirely different crime. —  Crimlaw
  • In a frequently cited passage, Coke took the position that abortion of a woman "quick with child" is "a great misprision, and no murder." —  Corrente
  • But, by a fatal misprision, they uniformly changed these terms to words more familiar to their ear, and rendered them and as if they had a reference to gold. —  A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)
  • Some legend was immediately invented in consequence of this misprision, some story about bees and honey, and the mistake was rendered in some degree plausible. —  A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.
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  1. Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, variant of Old French mesprison, from mespris, past participle of mesprendre, to make a mistake : mes-, wrongly; see mis-1 + prendre, to take, seize (from Latin prehendere, prēndere; see ghend- in Indo-European roots).
  2. mispris(e) (variant of misprize) + -ion.

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  1. from Old French mesprision, mesprison, mistake, error, fault, wrong, misprision, a thing done or taken amiss, from mes-pris, past participle of mesprendre, mistake: see misprize. Cf. prison.
  2. from misprize, misprise, + -ion, after misprision.
 

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