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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
mistakes .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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'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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