misconˈception
[mis-1 4.]
The action or an act of misconceiving; a notion resulting from misconceiving.
| 1665 Glanvill Scepsis Sci. x. 53 It cannot be that our knowledge should be other, then an heap of Misconception and Error. 1672 Harvey Anat. Consumptions (ed. 2) ii. 4 The great errors and dangers, that may result out of a misconception of the names of things. 1809–10 Coleridge Friend (1865) 97 There is another use of the word reason,..and more exposed to misconception. 1873 Symonds Grk. Poets xii. 417 To suppose that the Greeks were not a highly moralized race is perhaps the strangest misconception to which religious prejudice has ever given rise. |