misimplication

plural misimplications

1. countableuncountableAn erroneous implication.

   The misimplication is to assume that the ordinary logic of treatment applicable to the neurotic child can be applied to the borderline or psychotic chile, as well.

   1976, Rudolf Ekstein, In Search of Love and Competence, page 157

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   There is also the flagrant misimplication that business concerns never limit output and restrict supply by shutting down plants, suppressing progressive inventions, and by other methods, when it will enhance profits to do so.

   1923, Albert Benedict Wolfe, Conservatism, Radicalism, and Scientific Method, page 113

   These false charges were apparently due to some misquotes and misimplications drawn by a Washington free-lance reporter Moody hired to give his account of the trial.

   1982, Norman L. Geisler, A. F. Brooke, Mark J. Keough, The Creator in the Courtroom: "Scopes II", page 236