misimplication

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ implication

Noun

misimplication (countable and uncountable, plural misimplications)

1. An erroneous implication.
   • 1923, Albert Benedict Wolfe, Conservatism, Radicalism, and Scientific Method, page 113:

     There is also the flagrant misimplication that business concerns never limit output and restrict supply by shutting down plants, suppressing progressive inventions, and by other methods, when it will enhance profits to do so.

   • 1976, Rudolf Ekstein, In Search of Love and Competence, page 157:

     The misimplication is to assume that the ordinary logic of treatment applicable to the neurotic child can be applied to the borderline or psychotic chile, as well.

   • 1982, Norman L. Geisler, A. F. Brooke, Mark J. Keough, The Creator in the Courtroom: "Scopes II", page 236:

     These false charges were apparently due to some misquotes and misimplications drawn by a Washington free-lance reporter Moody hired to give his account of the trial.