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Missprision vs Misprision - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between missprision and misprision

is that missprision is (legal|rare) while misprision is (legal) criminal neglect of duty or wrongful execution of official duties.

missprision

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (legal, rare)

    • Usage notes

    * The spelling was used by in The Boke named the Governour (1531), a treatise on moral philosophy intended to direct the education of those destined to fill high positions.

    Anagrams

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    misprision

    English

    (wikipedia misprision)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (legal) Criminal neglect of duty or wrongful execution of official duties.
  • Misinterpretation or misunderstanding.
  • * 1595 , Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, III - 2
    • 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.
  • * 1984 , (Martin Amis), Money , Vintage 2005, p. 331:
    • they have what men call self-belief and blame you for your misprisions in their dreams, they are conspiracy theorists, benevolent dictators [...].

    Related terms

    * misprision of a felony * misprision of treason

    Usage notes

    Negative misprision'' is misprision by neglect of duty, notably a duty to report information about a felony or treason. ''Positive misprision is maladministration or the commission of other serious offence falling short of actual felony or treason.