What does misaccount mean?
Misaccount means (transitive) to account badly, wrongfully, or in error.
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/mɪsəˈkaʊnt/ · verb
(transitive) to account badly, wrongfully, or in error.
[…] having transpired in the village previous to the still more remarkable event which had struck dismay into the hearts of young and old, the journey was instantly attributed by those idle talkers who love nothing better than to misaccount for the movements and motives of their neighbours, […]
Oakley shows how a misaccount arises from “masculine ambivalence" about birth, which obstructs women from producing new accounts.
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Misaccount means (transitive) to account badly, wrongfully, or in error.
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[…] having transpired in the village previous to the still more remarkable event which had struck dismay into the hearts of young and old, the journey was instantly attributed by those idle talkers who love nothing better than to misaccount for the movements and motives of their neighbours, […]
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