Misprision vs Misprison - What's the difference?
misprision | misprison |
(legal) Criminal neglect of duty or wrongful execution of official duties.
Misinterpretation or misunderstanding.
* 1595 , Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, III - 2
* 1984 , (Martin Amis), Money , Vintage 2005, p. 331:
As nouns the difference between misprision and misprison
is that misprision is (legal) criminal neglect of duty or wrongful execution of official duties while misprison is .misprision
English
(wikipedia misprision)Noun
(en noun)- What hast thou done? thou hast mistaken quite
- And laid the love-juice on some true-love's sight:
- Of thy misprision must perforce ensue
- Some true love turn'd and not a false turn'd true.
- they have what men call self-belief and blame you for your misprisions in their dreams, they are conspiracy theorists, benevolent dictators [...].