Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who mistakes or misunderstands.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who mistakes.

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  • noun One who mistakes.

Etymologies

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mistake +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Mary O'Connell's book of short stories "Living with Saints" begins with a story that includes a UU chaplain who is mistaken for a Moonie; the mistaker had to remember that "Unitarian meant tambourines and Birkenstocks, not the Reverend Moon marrying a thousand brides to a thousand grooms."

    Philocrites: Thursday diversion: Fictional Unitarian Universalists. 2006

  • Mary O'Connell's book of short stories "Living with Saints" begins with a story that includes a UU chaplain who is mistaken for a Moonie; the mistaker had to remember that "Unitarian meant tambourines and Birkenstocks, not the Reverend Moon marrying a thousand brides to a thousand grooms."

    Philocrites: Thursday diversion: Fictional Unitarian Universalists. 2006

  • Silver, and often with garments, for his comelier accesse thither; which bounty, he (like a lewde mistaker) interpreted as assurances of her affection to him, and that he was more gracefull in her eye, then any man else could be.

    The Decameron 2004

  • 'I can be brave, even if I'm not a saint but only a turnip-mistaker.

    The Magic World Gerald Spencer Pryse 1891

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