misimagination

Definitions

Wrong imagination; delusion.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Vnto which their misimaginations I say⟳, that it is not one mans worke; although it were Iulius Caesar himselfe, to reduce⟳ a whole armie into diuers forms of battle with celeritic when they are to march⟳ in the enimies Countrey, or to fight⟳ with the Enemie, but that the same must be of necessitie perfourmed by diuers Chiefetains, and higher and lower officers of the armie;”

“Who can without indignation look⟳ upon the prodigies which this misimagination produces in that other sex; to the shame of their husbands, the scorn of religion, the damnation of their own⟳ souls?”

“When politics, with all the misimaginations of self it implies, is no longer a strong enough figure⟳ of antagonism, the old dialectic can only be transformed into a confrontation between the solitary self and death.”

“It is not easy to say⟳ what it is to misimagine another person. It is easier to give⟳ a useful description of some other kinds of misimagination.”

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