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misdistinguish

verb

Etymology

From mis- + distinguish.

  1. derived from distinguo
  2. derived from distinguer
  3. inherited from distingwen
  4. prefixed as misdistinguish — “mis + distinguish”

Definitions

  1. To make wrong distinctions in or concerning.

    • So that if we imagine a difference where there is none, because we distinguish where we should not, it may not be denied that we misdistinguish.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misdistinguish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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