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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