Meaning of misimitation | Babel Free

Definitions

The act of misimitating; defective imitation.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“All of them have their allowed and profitable use in God's Church, though not in so high a nature; except that of extreme unction; which as it is an apish misimitation of that extraordinary course which the apostolic times used in their cures of the sick, so it is grossly misapplied to other purposes than were intended in the first institution.”

“We have a critical tradition that is a misimitation of the sciences, for while science seeks out the significant qualities of things, anesthetic criticism seeks out only the most easily enumerable.”

“The Assassins talk ludicrously—This is a most egregious misimitation of Shakespere—Schiller should not have attempted Tragicomedy & none but Shakespere has succeeded.”

“One does not hear one's own mistakes or misimitations unless they are the ones on which one is expressly concentrating one's intellectual attention.”

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