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misargument en · NOUN

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 *h₂erǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *h₂érǵus Proto-Italic *argusder.? Latin arguō Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Latin argūmentumder. Anglo-Norman arguementbor. Middle English argument English argument English misargument From mis- + argument.

Meanings

1. (rare) incorrect argument
   • 1977, Oak Ridge Bicentennial Lectures: Technology and Societyhttps://books.google.com/books?id=I5IBHNg0C5AC&pg=PA62&dq=%22misarguments%22. Questioner: Your comments about Arthur Kantorwitz's court and the arguments before or perhaps the misarguments before it reminded me of what we might get in the campaign for election to build an elected scientific priesthood.
   • Those ships would not be built in the U.S. anyway and this is a misnomer and a misargument which is frequently utilized, that we are losing jobs by building those ships overseas. 1983, Maritime Administration Reauthorizationhttps://books.google.com/books?id=v9zdFmcI5JkC&pg=RA3-PA22&dq=%22misargument%22
   • The author of the Topics teaches generalities about the forms and ingredients of arguments and misarguments. 1986, Thomas Hugh Chance, Euthydemian Studies: Analysis of Plato's Euthydemushttps://books.google.com/books?id=WOVIAQAAMAAJ&q=%22misarguments%22&dq=%22misarguments%22
   • Serious prosecutorial misargument has occasionally led us to conclude that a pre-Brown jury was misled. 1990, People v. Gonzalezhttps://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/3d/51/1179.html
   • should not merely try to establish our own opinion dogmatically and historically, and content ourselves with exposing and refuting the misstatements and misarguments of our erring brethren: 1847, John Howard Hinton, Julius Charles Hare, Richard Dawes, The True Remedy for the Evils of the Agehttps://books.google.com/books?id=n8s6AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA5-PA101&dq=%22misarguments%22
   • That is a clear misargument of what the law is. Ballot No. 8 in the other case was a cross-over. It was not a write-in. 1975, Open Sessions of the Committee on Rules and Administrationhttps://books.google.com/books?id=GkMVAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA595&dq=%22misargument%22
   • In any event, we have consistently deemed such misargument harmless under similar circumstances, and we do so here. The jury was instructed to consider only those sentencing factors it deemed "applicable." 1993, People v. Montielhttps://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/4th/5/877.html
   • to be in doubt whether a paper written in defence of Christian doctrine, has not in itself afforded a handle to infidel misarguments. 1877, William Ricketts Cooper, The Horus Myth in Its Relation to Christianityhttps://books.google.com/books?id=1HwOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA76&dq=%22misarguments%22

Forms

Hypernyms

argument

Relateds

misclaim · demagogism · sophism · demagogy · demagoguery · fallacy · misrepresentation · sophistry · misstatement