miscensure

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/mɪsˈsɛnʃə(ɹ)/

verb

To misjudge.

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Meanings

verbmiscensure (third-person singular simple present miscensures, present participle miscensuring, simple past and past participle miscensured)

present singular third person miscensures · participle present miscensuring · participle past miscensured · past miscensured

  1. obsoleteTo misjudge.

    if we mis-censure your actions, which are euer (as those of men) according to the vogue

    1618, Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England
nounmiscensure (plural miscensures)

plural miscensures

  1. obsoleteerroneous judgment

    Your hard Opinions, and mis-Censures

    1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC

Origin

From mis- + censure.

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APA

miscensure. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/miscensure

MLA

“miscensure.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/miscensure. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “miscensure,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/miscensure.

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