misconjunction

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mis- +‎ conjunction

Noun[edit]

misconjunction (plural misconjunctions)

  1. A bad or wrong conjunction.
    • 1869, Horace Bushnell, Moral Uses of Dark Things, page 147:
      There is no misconjunction so absurd as that of safety and wrong, because it is a moral misconjunction, showing our mortal state itself to be out of joint, even down to its lowest foundations; []