misenlightened

Definitions

Having been enlightened incorrectly; misinformed.

Examples

“My dear and misenlightened friends in the Scriptures ' bonds: - It is with great agony of mind⟳ that I find⟳ myself in the position to speak⟳ to you.”

“Thence he would mark⟳, in real ignorance of the plot of the forthcoming piece, or cycle of pieces, the motley compaies gathering for rehearsal—the barn-stormers; the heavy "leads:" the slighted tragedians foreseeing their opportunity for the fiftieth time; the inflated supers canvassing the favour of phantom houses with imagined gems of inspiration, with new lamps for old in the shape⟳ of misenlightened renderings of traditional rôles; he would mark⟳ the gas, so to speak⟳, the artificial light⟳ that informed the garish scene with spurious vitality.”

“I was misenlightened, no doubt⟳ — made the victim, very possibly, of a trifling hoax.”

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