The most familiar and popular use of the term misprision describes the failure to report a crime. From Wordnik.com. [It's Called, "Misprison of a Felony." And it's a felony too.] Reference
If you conceal information, then it becomes what we call misprision of a felony. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2009] Reference
The former almost certainly accounts for Steiner's fondness for the word misprision. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 2] Reference
Friday he became the first person to be formally charged - also with "misprision" - since the wave of arrests following the coup bid. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
In fact, Harold Bloom would call them “strong writers,” engaging in a kind of misprision necessary for their own development. From Wordnik.com. [Head Shaking and the best Canadian Poem] Reference
Indeed, that’s what "misprision" is all about, and it’s a serious crime. From Wordnik.com. ["You may rest assured that I, and hundreds of supporters, will continue to contact you, by email, phone, and perhaps in-person requests...."] Reference
The offence is known as misprision of felony. From Wordnik.com. [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Ye give this grail (touch with no mad misprision!). From Wordnik.com. [The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence] Reference
Peleus sister alike and brother in high misprision. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
Kaunda had been charged with misprision of treason. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Someday ... it will be my turn. personal misprision. From Wordnik.com. [notes from the peanut gallery] Reference
Peleus sister alike and brother in high misprision. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Fragments] Reference
Kaulung'ombe has also been charged with misprision of treason. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The first Congress passed a misprision of felony statute in 1789. From Wordnik.com. [It's Called, "Misprison of a Felony." And it's a felony too.] Reference
District Court in Wichita to one count of misprision of a felony. From Wordnik.com. [Former Kansas Athletics Official Pleads Guilty] Reference
I also believe that Wordsworth was not her only model of misprision. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Bishop and the Wordsworth of _Lyrical Ballads_: Sentimentalism, Straw Men, and Misprision] Reference
Oddly, to me this notion of misprision does not apply to agenda or theme. From Wordnik.com. [notes from the peanut gallery] Reference
Bishop, too, revealed a tendency to re-creative misprision from early on. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Bishop and the Wordsworth of _Lyrical Ballads_: Sentimentalism, Straw Men, and Misprision] Reference
It's the routine commission of High Treason, and misprision of that treason. From Wordnik.com. [Reproach To Americans From a Fellow American] Reference
Are we presuming a state which has no general misprision of a felony statute?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Calling the Police as Negligence:] Reference
Kaunda had been charged with misprision of treason - concealing knowledge of the coup plan. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
What can be learned about network effects - misprision, amplification, rumor - could be beneficial. From Wordnik.com. [Why Journalism Matters - Publishing 2.0] Reference
That is what makes these instances of critical misprision so baffling, so clearly in need of explanation. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Bishop and the Wordsworth of _Lyrical Ballads_: Sentimentalism, Straw Men, and Misprision] Reference
He is alleged to have committed "misprision of treason", which is punishable with life imprisonment in Zambia. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
But he is also interested in failed acts of misprision, as in "The Thorn," where Martha Ray's "Misery, O Misery!". From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Bishop and the Wordsworth of _Lyrical Ballads_: Sentimentalism, Straw Men, and Misprision] Reference
The federal misprision of felony statute would seem to make it a federal crime to fail to report a federal felony. From Wordnik.com. [Ctrl-Alt-Delete] Reference
Under the federal statute, the prosecution must prove the following elements to obtain a misprision of felony conviction. From Wordnik.com. [It's Called, "Misprison of a Felony." And it's a felony too.] Reference
The one, as I said, Brenda, pleaded guilty to what is misprision of a felony, essentially, covering up the felony of fraud. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 19, 2008] Reference
This essay demonstrates the signficance of Hegel's misprision of Buddhism for his thought and for Western philosophy in general. From Wordnik.com. [Abstracts] Reference
The NYT article on Scruggs the other day mentioned that the son was up on charges of 'misprision of felony' - had to look it up. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of a Subprime Lender] Reference
She was, however, herself deeply committed to a fierce process of selection, as well as a perversely illuminating brand of misprision. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Bishop and the Wordsworth of _Lyrical Ballads_: Sentimentalism, Straw Men, and Misprision] Reference
The written charge accuses him of "misprision of treason," a legal term for not reporting treason to state law enforcement authorities. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Nor does Bishop's recurrent use of misprision suggest that this device was for her anything less than a matter of poetic life and death. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Bishop and the Wordsworth of _Lyrical Ballads_: Sentimentalism, Straw Men, and Misprision] Reference
Both are charged with misprision, or withholding knowledge of ticket theft. From Wordnik.com. [The University Daily Kansan stories] Reference
She pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony for failing to report the truck theft. From Wordnik.com. [WOWT - HomePage - Headlines] Reference
The federal charge of misprision of a felony, which means misconduct, was unsealed Tuesday against ex-detective Jeffrey Lehrmann. From Wordnik.com. [Homepage] Reference
District Court in New Orleans to charges of misprision of a felony, which means he had knowledge of a crime and didn't report it. From Wordnik.com. [Fore, right!] Reference
On March 25, 2009, Brent Mueller, the former purchasing director for Quest, pled guilty to misprision of a felony (Case No. CR-09-068F). From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
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