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Meaning of misderive | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To derive erroneously.
    transitive
  2. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect.
    obsolete, transitive

Examples

“[…] this practice of impropriation, which was first set on foot by unjust and sacrilegious bulls from Rome, is justly offensive both to God and good men; as misderiving the well-meant devotions of charitable and pious souls into a wrong channel.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

misderived misderives misderiving misdescribe misdescribed misdescribes

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