Word Finder - misconception

definition

A mistaken belief, a wrong idea

example

He had the misconception that the word "misconception" meant becoming pregnant with a girl.

For several centuries it was wholly lost sight of, and it was not till the 13th century that it was rediscovered through the agency of Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln, who translated it into Latin, under the misconception that it was a genuine work of the twelve sons of Jacob, and that the Christian interpolations were a genuine product of Jewish prophecy.

It is a common misconception that candle making is a dangerous hobby.

But later Jewish exegesis was especially concerned to eliminate everything in the sacred writings that might give rise to misconception with respect to God on the part of the unlearned.

The hypothesis that the Eudemian Ethics, and by consequence the Magna Moralia, are later than Aristotle has arisen from a simple misconception, continued in a Scholium attributed to Aspasius, who lived in the 2nd century A.D.

This is clearly a misconception.

The last chapter, its author says, is taken up with "Mr Papillon's banishment under the Alien Act, from a ministerial misconception of a metaphysical sonnet."

It is a common misconception that distance learning will be easier than on-campus learning.

But too many people hold the misconception that it's a pain in the butt to work the glutes.

There is a misconception about buying gifts online or shopping online in general.

A common misconception is that "because it's on the internet, it must be free."

The most important questions raised in a scientific view appear to be the misconception of the whole problem of local taxation by governments.

It is a common misconception that alternative forms of tobacco use are less hazardous to your health.

A scholarship is another type of grant, and despite a common misconception, does not always require an excellent grade point average.The Jeannette Rankin Scholarship Fund is one such grant.

A common misconception is over the definition of a "homebound" patient, by Medicare standards.

It is a common misconception that red wines need to be served at room temperature.

The objection raised by Herschel (Light, § 703) to this comparison depends on a misconception.

The researches of the archaeologist are, in short, tending to reconstruct the primitive classical history; and here, as in the Orient, it is evident that historians of the earlier day were constantly blinded by a misconception as to the antiquity of civilization.

Their general attitude may be explained as a reaction against the abuses which they saw going on around them, and to a misconception of the character of the Hottentot and Bantu races.

However well grounded this reasoning may be, it altogether misses the point at which Butler aimed, and is indeed a misconception of the nature of analogical argument.

The belief that libertarianism denies the binding force of habit or the gradual development of unchecked tendencies in character depends upon a similar misconception.

Assuredly, the difficult section of the Kritik, on the ground of the distinction between phenomena and noumena, would not have led to so much misconception as it has done, had Kant then brought forward what lies at the root of the distinction, his doctrine of reason and its functions.

This defect appears most strongly in his treatment of Joan of Arc; and the attack on Agnes Sorel seems to have been dictated by the dauphin (afterwards Louis XI.), then a refugee in Burgundy, of whom he was afterwards to become a severe critic. He was not, however, misled, as his more picturesque predecessor Froissart had been, by feudal and chivalric tradition into misconception of the radical injustice of the English cause in France; and except in isolated instances where Burgundian interests were at stake, he did full justice to the patriotism of Frenchmen.

It is a slight misconception that babies need to be bathed a lot, as apart from dirty bottoms which are cleaned when diapers are changed, when else do they get the opportunity to get dirty?

There is a misconception that solar power installations are costly, complex and inefficient.

One misconception about discounted garments is that they somehow lack in quality.

A misconception some people have about big and tall men's clothing is that the styles are limited.

It is a common misconception that Pinot Noir and other red wines need to be served at room temperature.

A common misconception concerns the price quoted by a rare book appraisal service.

Many people are under the misconception that books that have survived a century or more, are classified the same way as other items of the same era such as furniture, pottery or dolls.

Sometimes people new to the world of doll collecting have the misconception that retired dolls must be a certain age or manufactured prior to a certain date.

Once simple misconception is that your data and cell phone is safe from hackers and other devious technology motives.

There is a common misconception among the general public that a prepaid cell phone is not capable of offering the same kinds of features and services as their regular monthly counterparts.

The common misconception many people have about Mikhail Baryshnikov is that he was Russian.

It is a popular misconception that men do not need an emotional component for sex, but if a man is engaged in an emotional affair, he may not feel the need for intimacy with his current partner or wife.

A common misconception about Boxing Day is that it was the day that people put away their decorations and took down their trees, placing heirloom items in boxes for the following year.

Perhaps the biggest misconception regarding QuiverFull is that it is a religion on its own.

Thus, according to Jewish tradition, there are eighteen7 passages in which the older scribes deliberately altered the text on the ground that the language employed was either irreverent or liable to misconception.

The confusion of these two points of view has led, and still leads, to serious philosophical misconception.

It is a singular circumstance, however, that the argument upon which Galileo mainly relied as furnishing a physical demonstration of the truth of the new theory rested on a misconception.

Perhaps the biggest misconception about prog is that it ended sometime during the first punk era in the mid- to late ` 70s.

Thats a common misconception perpetuated by style mags who couldnt understand that there is more to DJing than merely having a party.

There is a general misconception that once an item passes through a public auction any questionable prior provenance would be erased.

Hathaway notes a widespread misconception that solar activity varies every 11 years " like a pure sinusoid.

Vierteljahrsschrift (1902, 1903) Goetz has shown that Sabatier's presentation of St Francis's relations with the ecclesiastical authority in general, and with Cardinal Hugolino (Gregory IX.) in particular, is largely based on misconception; that the development of the order was not forced on Francis against his will; and that the differences in the order did not during Francis's lifetime attain to such a magnitude as to cause him during his last years the suffering depicted by Sabatier.

To prevent misconception he must expand and explain what was obscure, adjust the incidents of the past to the ideas of later times, emphasize the moral lessons to be learned from the national history, and, finally, adapt the rules and regulations of the Old Covenant to the conditions and requirements of his own age.

Much misconception, however, has prevailed as to which breeds are the nearest to the ancestral wild stock.

Owing to a misconception, one Dutch-Belgian brigade formed up in front of the ridge.

Further, it is a misconception to regard as injurious the passage of money into foreign countries.

The Press has dealt faithfully with the news furnished by the naval and military authorities, but it may well be that the public misunderstand the situation and that this misconception is producing serious results.

Hathaway notes a widespread misconception that solar activity varies every 11 years like a pure sinusoid.