Meaning of misrevise | Babel Free

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To revise in a manner that makes something worse.

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“Inexperienced or ineffective reader-writers often misrevise their drafts, their plans and goals.”

“In 1789, the latter-day Neoplatonist Thomas Taylor (1789: 2.282) published a translation of On the Cave of the Nymphs, in which he rendered θεόπνοος as "nourished by a divine spirit" —a rendering that arguably captures some of the sense⟳ of a life-giving force⟳. (Unfortunately [and inexplicably], Taylor [1823: 177] misrevised his translation of θεόπνοος, some thirty years later, to “inspired by divinity.")”

“Not all of Ransom's changes are disastrous, some improve⟳, almost all show⟳ surprising ways in which passages can be turned into variations. We are given a thousand opportunities to misrevise.”

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