misview

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ view

Verb

misview (third-person singular simple present misviews, present participle misviewing, simple past and past participle misviewed)

1. To view incorrectly; to misinterpret.
   • 1874, Annual Report of the Regents of the University of the State of New York, page 710:

     It is, therefore, highly illogical, while subordinating the syllogism to the readier and more direct method of induction, to misview its legitimate function and to detract from the signal service it has rendered in establishing many important truths.

   • 1992, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs, Religious Freedom Act:

     We think the Forest Service should be called to task for their deliberate manipulating of the DEAS to lead the public to misview Native American intent or ideas.

   • 2006, Holmes Rolston, Science and Religion: A Critical Survey, page Z-30:

     But, depending a little on how open one's concept of the naturalistic is, and how much one expects by way of completeness in any nauralistic explanation, such a presumption can be inevitably to misview it.

   • 2013, Emily J. Lordi, Black Resonance, page 32:

     If his collaborative projects in visual media diminish Wright's anxiety about misrepresentation, so too does his literal distance from the audience that might potentially misread (or misview) his work.

   • 2020, Ingo Swann, Nick Cook, Resurrecting the Mysterious: Ingo Swann's 'Great Lost Work', page 164:

     If we try to comprehend the intensely psychically oriented consciousness of the ancients, for example, or even the consciousness of the Renaissance using only or modern, rational definitions of intellect and sentiment, we will not be able to truly comprehend them at all for the very good reason that they did not view thought, intellect, sentiments, and thus existence, in the way we today view them or rather, misview them.

2. To view inappropriately; to take an incorrect stance towards.
   • 2006, Belinda Liau, True Leaders, page 104:

     Often, we have not been taught effective ways of establishing a friendship with the opposite gender and we often misview the other person as a sex object.

   • 2018, Patricia A. Rosenmeyer, The Language of Ruins, page 95:

     She concludes "That Damis is required to misview Memnon in order to gain his epiphanic experience implies that pious viewers need something else in order to engage correctly with the anthropomorphic images of traditional Greek religion."

Noun

misview (plural misviews)

1. An incorrect attitude or interpretation
   • 1885, The Bengal Law Reports of Decisions of the High Court at Fort William, page 447:

     The Sessions Judge has awarded the maximum sentence allowed by law for the offence of which (under his misview of the law ) he has convicted the prisoners under s 115 of the Penal Code, viz., "abetting of the commission of an offence punishable with transportation for life, if that offence be not committed in consequence of the abetment," or as he puts it, "the said offence having been committed not in consequence of that abetment."

   • 2005, Charlotte Brunsdon, David Morley, The Nationwide Television Studies, page 193:

     It's just...trying to reinforce our view of ...or misview of Americans and Americanism, you know, having those children sing “God Bless America”!

   • 2011, Matthew Boswell, Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film, page 72:

     Snodgrass has referred to Hitler as a man who hated being born and has argued that this desire to attain omnipotence through annihilation pointed back to a 'shocking misview of the birth trauma'.

   • 2013, Horst Zuse, A Framework of Software Measurement, page 376:

     It is a widely spread misview that weak commutativity does not exclude the ratio scale.