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mistransform en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + transform.

Meanings

1. To transform incorrectly.
   • The second stage in the process by which African cultural realities are often mistransformed through mistranslation by ethnographers is associated with the urgent demand for 'theories' to assist the ethnographer in organising his field data and in presenting the conclusions derived from the data. 2012, Helen Lauer, Kofi Anyidoho, Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanities Through African Perspectives, page 87:
   • the oftener it is thought upon, the more it will be lamented by every honest heart, that God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, that Christ who is God and Man, our gracious Lord and Redeemer, should be more traduced, and more grossly mistransformed through liberty of prophesying (as they term it) amongst us Christians, than they have been in any age before amongst Turks or heathens, which have died in their sins for want of prophesying. 1844, Thomas Jackson, The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D, page 45:
   • Mistransforming your true person produces tiredness, and tiredness produces a mistransformation of your true person. 2016, John D. Wallace, Reaching in All Directions:
   • […] several of the test scores appear to have been mistransformed. 1998, Cecilia Elena Rouse, Private School Vouchers and Student Achievement, page 596:

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