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Meaning of misrelegate | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To relegate inappropriately.

Examples

“"Job-consciousness," that suggestive concept so regularly re-examined and so frequently misrelegated to the mythology of the past, is, in my estimation, still a useful, dynamic insight.”
“However, this anticipates what needs to be shown, and ignores what I have just claimed: the widespread failure to recognize that the dialogue is indeed about virtue, being instead misrelegated to the specialists of academic epistemology, with only its famous "paradox" (perhaps along with Socrates' seemingly bizarre resolution) being extracted for use in elementary courses and textbooks introducing "The Basic Problems of Philosophy."”
“He is “misrelegated to a state mental hospital” where he is studied, categorized, made subject to discipline “at the hands of well-meaning representatives of the social order” (Bell 9).”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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