ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Missprision

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Missprision is a noun meaning (law, rare) Obsolete spelling of misprision.

Meaning

(law, rare) Obsolete spelling of misprision.

Example Sentences

[I]f any persone were perceiued to be absent, or were sene to laughe at the folye of the emperour [Nero], he was forthe with accused, as it were, of missprision: whereby the emperour founde occasion to committe him to prison or to put hym to tortures.

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Related dictionary entries include misprision, misprison, misper, mispronounciation, missment, misdemeanour.

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