Meaning of misrecount | Babel Free

Definitions

To recount inaccurately; misrelate; to tell an untrue version of events.

Examples

“I write⟳, without a particle of feeling against Mr. Lillie, for I know⟳ him to be altogether friendly to my late colleague and myself, and even while inadvertently misrecounting her history, he writes of her in a most reverential tone.”

“So far from the Queen having ordered him back, he would not have⟳ written but that his coming back would be misrecounted to her if he did not.”

“Witnesses may misconstrue and misrecount what they see⟳ for a variety of reasons other than the inherent unreliability of sensory perception and the inevitable bias of retrospective narrativizing — and Hannah's defense raised several further hypotheses to explain⟳ the incriminating testimony presented at her trial.”

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