missprision

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A form of misprision — Criminal neglect or wrongful execution of duty, especially by a public official; (countable) a specific instance of this.

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Meanings

nounmissprision (plural missprisions)

plural missprisions

  1. obsoleterarelawObsolete spelling of misprision.

    [I]f any persone were perceiued to be absent, or were sene to laughe at the folye of the emperour [Nero], he was forthe with accused, as it were, of missprision: whereby the emperour founde occasion to committe him to prison or to put hym to tortures.

    1531, Thomas Elyot, “In what Wise Musike may be to a Noble Man Necessarie: And what Modestie ought to be therin”, in The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC
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APA

missprision. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/missprision

MLA

“missprision.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/missprision. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “missprision,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/missprision.

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