Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In law, wrong citation.

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  • noun law A wrong citation.
  • verb Present participle of misken.

Etymologies

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From Middle English miskenninge, from Old English miscennung ("a mistake or variation in pleading before a court, a fine exacted for such a mistake"), equivalent to misken +‎ -ing. Cognate with Dutch miskenning ("misunderstanding, mistreatment").

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Examples

  • Sulke argumente vertoon 'n growwe onverskilligheid teenoor en miskenning van die werklike onreg en lyding wat vervat is in die oorge-erfde rasse-strukture van ons samelewings-instellings.

    TOESPRAAK DEUR PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA BY DIE GELEENTHEID TER ONTVANGS VAN 'N ERE-GRAAD VAN DIE UNIVERSITEIT VAN PRETORIA 1997

  • Sulke argumente vertoon 'n growwe onverskilligheid teenoor en miskenning van die werklike onreg en lyding wat vervat is in die oorge-erfde rasse-strukture van ons samelewings-instellings.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Tog het die gemeenskap nooit hierdie miskenning van sy fundamentele regte aanvaar nie.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Were I you, Ranald, I would be for miskenning Sir Duncan, keeping my own secret, and departing quietly by suffocation, like your ancestors before you. ''

    A Legend of Montrose 1871

  • But it is a singular proof of a noble and divine faith, — that it can lay hold on him and keep him when he would go, — that can challenge kindness on a miskenning Jesus, (321) — that can stand on the ground of the promises when there is not a foot-breadth of a dispensation to build on.

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

  • No man fell so regularly into the painful dilemma of mistaking, or, in Scottish phrase, miskenning, the person he spoke to, or more frequently enquired of an old maid for her husband, of a childless wife about her young people, of the distressed widower for the spouse at whose funeral he himself had assisted but a fortnight before; and none was ever more familiar with strangers whom he had never seen, or seemed more estranged from those who had a title to think themselves well known to him.

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • Were I you, Ranald, I would be for miskenning Sir Duncan, keeping my own secret, and departing quietly by suffocation, like your ancestors before you.”

    A Legend of Montrose 2008

  • No man fell so regularly into the painful dilemma of mistaking, or, in Scottish phrase, _miskenning_, the person he spoke to, or more frequently enquired of an old maid for her husband, of a childless wife about her young people, of the distressed widower for the spouse at whose funeral he himself had assisted but a fortnight before; and none was ever more familiar with strangers whom he had never seen, or seemed more estranged from those who had a title to think themselves well known to him.

    St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

  • Were I you, Ranald, I would be for miskenning Sir Duncan, keeping my own secret, and departing quietly by suffocation, like your ancestors before you. "

    A Legend of Montrose Walter Scott 1801

  • But that statute and appointment of heaven hath thus linked it, “after death comes judgment:” because, the soul in the body would not be sensible of its separation from God, but was wholly taken up with the body, neglecting and miskenning (202) that infinite loss of God’s favour and face, therefore the

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

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