misperˈsuasion Now rare or Obs.
[mis-1 4.]
Persuasion of what is erroneous; wrong conviction or conception.
| 1594 Hooker Eccl. Pol. Pref. viii. §13 Touching the sequele of your present misperswasions. 1597 Ibid. v. lxviii. §11 Suppose that some haue by misperswasion liued in Schisme. 1667 Decay Chr. Piety viii. ¶7 Some misperswasions concerning the divine attributes, which do..tend..to the corrupting mens manners. 1707 in Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) II. 50 To confirme people in their several mispersuasions. 1829 Southey Sir T. More II. 207 Persons..under a fatal but invincible mispersuasion. 1834 Oxf. Univ. Mag. I. 47 Till the mispersuasion is eradicated from the mind of the public. |