Meaning of misempower | Babel Free

Definitions

To empower inappropriately.

Examples

“I am afraid this must be regarded as another of the unwise attempts at tramelling; where incompetent and misempowered legislators, thinking of themselves instead of the public purposes (of which themselves were but agents) have⟳ frustrated, as far as their mistakes could frustrate, those public purposes;”

“His scholarly interests explore⟳ the sociocultural dimensions of literacy education as it dis/misempowers youth and their teachers in urban environments.”

“With their associated parties, “they are at the center and the periphery; they are at the forefront and at the margins; they are misempowered agents, and they are hapless victims; they are everywhere and nowhere, everything and nothing” (Olaiya, 2014:3).”

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