Misrelegate

Quick meaning: Misrelegate is a verb meaning To relegate inappropriately.

Meaning

To relegate inappropriately.

Example Sentences

"Job-consciousness," that suggestive concept so regularly re-examined and so frequently misrelegated to the mythology of the past, is, in my estimation, still a useful, dynamic insight.

He is “misrelegated to a state mental hospital” where he is studied, categorized, made subject to discipline “at the hands of well-meaning representatives of the social order” (Bell 9).

However, this anticipates what needs to be shown, and ignores what I have just claimed: the widespread failure to recognize that the dialogue is indeed about virtue, being instead misrelegated to the specialists of academic epistemology, with only its famous "paradox" (perhaps along with Socrates' seemingly bizarre resolution) being extracted for use in elementary courses and textbooks introducing "The Basic Problems of Philosophy."

Word Forms

• misrelegates
• misrelegating
• misrelegated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include demote, misallocate, relegate, mispromote, misplace, misemploy.

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