Dictionary

misaccuse en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Italic *kaussā Old Latin caussa Latin causa Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin accūsārelbor. Old French acuserbor. Middle English acusen English accuse English misaccuse From mis- + accuse.

Meanings

1. To accuse wrongly.
   • Naipaul commits the very sin of which he misaccuses the Indian novelists: the form of his work entails the worth of human life, while the infused vision denies it. 1996, Ronald Suresh Roberts, Clarence Thomas and the Tough Love Crowd, →ISBN:
   • I hold no brief for any disloyal person or persons that there is even any question about. but I say, let us be careful not to misaccuse or misjudge anyone. 1918, The bulletin of the Commercial Law League of America:
   • To misaccuse the Basques was something the Spanish people could not abide, and they switched their vote to the socialists. 2016, David McFadden, An Innocent in Cuba, →ISBN, page 348:
   • To calumniate is to accuse falsely with the perlocutionary intention to mislead and "misaccuse" 2009, Daniel Vanderveken, Meaning and Speech Acts: Volume 1, Principles of Language Use, →ISBN:

Forms

Deriveds

misaccusation