noun
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A misunderstanding or misinterpretation resulting from the use of the wrong meaning of a word that has multiple meanings.
definition
(grammar) An ungrammatical phrase.
Examples of misconstruction in a Sentence
Sumner's last years were further saddened by the misconstruction put upon one of his most magnanimous acts.
This was the work of the remainder of Trench's life; it exposed him at times to considerable misconstruction and obloquy, but he came to be appreciated, and, when in November 1884 he resigned his archbishopric from infirmity, clergy and laity unanimously recorded their sense of his "wisdom, learning, diligence, and munificence."
Substantially he held fast the Calvinism of his preceptor Cameron; but, like Richard Baxter in England, by his breadth and charity he exposed himself to all manner of misconstruction.