noun
definition
A failure to understand something; an illusion, misconception or misunderstanding.
Examples of misapprehension in a Sentence
He was made cardinal almost by accident, and under a misapprehension on the pope's part.
No careful and competent student of his works has ever failed to correct this gross misapprehension.
M`Lennan's theory of primitive society with owing its plausible appearance of universal validity to general neglect of the Indo-European evidence and misapprehension of such portions of it as M`Lennan did attempt to handle.
A misapprehension between Huskisson and the duke of Wellington led to the duke proposing an amendment, the success of which caused the abandonment of the measure by the government.
Linnaeus seems to have been under a misapprehension when he applied to it FIG.
Locke had spent some years in Holland, the country of Grotius, who, with help from other great lawyers, and under a misapprehension as to the meaning of the Roman jus gentium, shaped modern concepts of international law by an appeal to law of nature.
The reason of the misapprehension of him which is current is due very mainly to the fact that he was eminently a humorist.
Some writers have been under the misapprehension that this name for a time superseded that of Londinium.
Disappointed after his return to England in 1788 in the hope which he had entertained, through a misapprehension of something said by Lord Lansdowne, of taking a personal part in the legislation of his country, he settled down to the yet higher task of discovering and teaching the principles upon which all sound legislation must proceed.
But he refused to be elected under any misapprehension of his attitude, and with what his friends thought unnecessary candour re-stated his obnoxious views on universal amnesty at length, just before the time for the election, with the certainty that this would prevent his success.
The misapprehension of the significance of µera led to various mistaken uses of the term " metaphysics," e.g.