Meaning of misextend | Babel Free

Definitions

To extend wrongly.

Examples

“We have⟳ seen what an aptness there is to misapply and misextend St Paul's principles of unity, and to seek⟳ support⟳ in them for that which in fact they rather exclude⟳.”

“[…] and misextended this term Quichua; it was really and originally the name⟳ of a tribe which spoke a dialect of the language of the Incas and wich lived between the Pachachaca and Pampa Rivers in what is at present⟳ the provinces of Andahuailas and Abancay departamento of Apurimac in central Perú.”

“I am trying to make⟳ a point⟳, on behalf of the Opposition in relation to the use⟳ of the external affairs power, which was misconstrued and misextended earlier by the Attorney-General.”

“One might expect⟳ to find⟳ misextensions of various kinds based on ill-matched lexical areas across the child's two languages, parallel to the misextended morphological categories or syntactic structures that have⟳ already been noted.”

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