misnotify

M3I1S1N1O1T1I1F4Y4

verb

To notify improperly, giving inaccurate information, or giving the correct information to the wrong people or in the wrong manner.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

verbmisnotify (third-person singular simple present misnotifies, present participle misnotifying, simple past and past participle misnotified)

present singular third person misnotifies · participle present misnotifying · participle past misnotified · past misnotified

  1. To notify improperly, giving inaccurate information, or giving the correct information to the wrong people or in the wrong manner.

    They had met at ten, misnotified by the boy — though I had given him a written notification to shew them; appointing the hour to meet at 11.

    2017, John Quincy Adams, David Waldstreicher, John Quincy Adams: Diaries Vol. 2 1821-1848
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    This is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference based on a Virginia Supreme Court case in which a party was denied appeal as untimely, but the party had been "misnotified" as to the entry of a final order.

    1991, The White Paper: Activities of the General Assembly of Virginia, page 91

    Studies of the accuracy of death certification have revealed that fibrosing alveolitis is underdiagnosed in life and misnotified at death, and therefore the real prevalance is likely to be higher than previously estimated;

    1996, D. J. Weatherall, J. G. G. Ledingham, D. A. Warrell, Oxford Textbook of Medicine - Volume 2, page 2786

Origin

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