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misaccusation en · NOUN

Etymology

From mis- + accusation or misaccuse + -ation.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) An act of misaccusing; a false accusation.
   • This is truly a case of misapprehension and misaccusation. 2010, Craig Calhoun, Robert K. Merton: Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science, →ISBN:
   • You constantly hear the misaccusation that Christianity crucified the Jewish nation during the Holocaust. 1988, Wacław Zajączkowski, Martyrs of charity, page 31:
   • However, he devotes the first thirty-two pages to the restoration of the public image of Buddhism from the Chinese Marxist misaccusation of it as a superstition. 2013, Dan Smyer Yu, The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China: Charisma, Money, Enlightenment, →ISBN:

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