misproclaim

present singular third person misproclaims · participle present misproclaiming · participle past misproclaimed · past misproclaimed

1. To proclaim wrongly, such as by proclaiming false information, or proclaiming in the wrong manner.

   And if they do not carve them in this way, or if they misproclaim feast days or ember days, then they owe three marks to the bishop.

   2020, Lisa Collinson, Torgeir Landro, Bertil Nilsson, The Borgarthing Law and the Eidsivathing Law, page 88

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   Not only is it a switch to allegory in a realistic novel, not only does it misproclaim its own message, it is not even really a murder!

   1987, Martha Noel Evans, Masks of Tradition, page 97

   Since the Lord's Supper is a proclamation of Jesus' death (v. 26), those who practice it in an unworthy manner are misproclaiming and thus are answerable for the body and blood of the Lord (v. 27).

   2017, Dan Nighswander, 1 Corinthians