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n. - An understanding of something that is not correct.

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Usage examples (34)
  • If a man can die through a misapprehension, is there any immorality in making him live through a misapprehension?
  • This problem with misapprehension is very familiar, with overtones of those people (you know who you are) who think of the Internet as a bunch of "tubes," for example.
  • Manifold errors have arisen from this misapprehension, which is far from the meaning of the apostolic injunction.
  • This was a kind of misapprehension of who McCain is.
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