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.
Word Forms
- missprisions
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include misprision, misprison, misper, mispronounciation, missment, misdemeanour.
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