What does misextend mean?
Misextend means To extend wrongly..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
To extend wrongly..
We have seen what an aptness there is to misapply and misextend St Paul's principles of unity, and to seek support in them for that which in fact they rather exclude.
[…] and misextended this term Quichua; it was really and originally the name of a tribe which spoke a dialect of the language of the Incas and wich lived between the Pachachaca and Pampa Rivers in what is at present the provinces of Andahuailas and Abancay departamento of Apurimac in central Perú.
I am trying to make a point, on behalf of the Opposition in relation to the use of the external affairs power, which was misconstrued and misextended earlier by the Attorney-General.
One might expect to find misextensions of various kinds based on ill-matched lexical areas across the child's two languages, parallel to the misextended morphological categories or syntactic structures that have already been noted.
Use misextend when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Misextend means To extend wrongly..
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We have seen what an aptness there is to misapply and misextend St Paul's principles of unity, and to seek support in them for that which in fact they rather exclude.
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