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mispursue

verb

Etymology

From mis- + pursue.

  1. derived from prōsequor
  2. derived from pursure
  3. inherited from pursuen
  4. prefixed as mispursue — “mis + pursue”

Definitions

  1. To pursue in the wrong way.

    • A study, complete with statistics and history, of the American legal profession as it has been pursued and mispursued in the past couple of hundred years.
    • Such struggle is mispursued when one tries to establish one's viewpoint as uniquely true and to exclude the other's as simply false.

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