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missignify en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + signify.

Meanings

1. To signify falsely; to give the appearance of something that is not true.
   • But they are signs which, on the one hand, missignify what causes them and, on the other, cause that which, as signs, they deny. 2003, Brian Donnelly, The Socialist Émigré: Marxism and the Later Tillich, page 45:
   • It was unconsciounable that the sign should missignify, the costume deceive. 1996, David Cressy, “Gender Trouble and Cross-Dressing in Early Modern England”, in Journal of British Studies, volume 35, number 4, page 442:
   • These are, then, (dis) simulators, subjects who missignify, who abuse signs for their own pleasure. 1999, Josiah Blackmore, Gregory S. Hutcheson, Queer Iberia, page 89:

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