misconceive

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Regrettably, he and they misconceive the application of the U.S.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2023

People misconceive reality, according to his diagnosis, because they think about it without imagination or by rote.

From Time Magazine Archive

But in his own time it came upon ears which were naturally disposed to misconceive it.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Let us be careful that we do not misconceive it in one most important particular!

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

In trying to subject history to the order of logic they sometimes misconceive the filiation of ideas.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various