Meaning of mispursue | Babel Free

Definitions

To pursue in the wrong way.

Examples

“A study⟳, complete⟳ with statistics and history, of the American legal profession as it has been pursued and mispursued in the past couple of hundred years.”

“Such struggle⟳ is mispursued when one tries to establish⟳ one's viewpoint as uniquely true and to exclude⟳ the other's as simply false.”

“Also, I should have⟳ thought that, for Aquinas, all want⟳ and pursue⟳ happiness, but only the wise want⟳ and pursue⟳ what happiness consists in: the unwise want⟳ and pursue⟳ but do not attain happiness, because they are under a misapprehension about what it consists in (e.g., they think⟳ it consists in riches, or honor, or the delights of the flesh, or ...), and so “mispursue” happiness, by pursuing things which won't in fact, if attained, bring⟳ them happiness (although the mispursuers of happiness think⟳ they will).”

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