misaccusation

plural misaccusations

1. countableuncountableAn act of misaccusing; a false accusation.

   This is truly a case of misapprehension and misaccusation.

   2010, Craig Calhoun, Robert K. Merton: Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science, →ISBN

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   You constantly hear the misaccusation that Christianity crucified the Jewish nation during the Holocaust.

   1988, Wacław Zajączkowski, Martyrs of charity, page 31

   However, he devotes the first thirty-two pages to the restoration of the public image of Buddhism from the Chinese Marxist misaccusation of it as a superstition.

   2013, Dan Smyer Yu, The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China: Charisma, Money, Enlightenment, →ISBN