mistheorise

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A form of mistheorize — To theorize incorrectly.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

verbmistheorise (third-person singular simple present mistheorises, present participle mistheorising, simple past and past participle mistheorised)

present singular third person mistheorises · participle present mistheorising · participle past mistheorised · past mistheorised

  1. UKnonstandardNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of mistheorize.

    Many of the SS expositions, in fixing 'subaltern' as 'peasant', or as 'not-yet-proletarian', could then be said to be mistheorising altogether.

    2020, Benjamin Zachariah, “Antonio Gramsci's Moment of Arrival in India”, in Benjamin Zachariah, Lutz Raphael, Brigitta Bernet, editor, What’s Left of Marxism, page 78
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    Without consideration of the colony character of Malaysia in terms of its consistent interculturation with imperial and neoimperial power, multiplicity can easily be mistheorised as representing Saidian Orientalism or expatriates—such theorisations can be drawn from superficial reinterpretations of Taiwan's Tenryuubito phenomenon in recent years and Japan's Datsu-A Ron statement during the Meiji period.

    2017, Francis Chia-Hui Lin, Architectural Theorisations and Phenomena in Asia, page 194

Origin

Cite this entry
APA

mistheorise. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mistheorise

MLA

“mistheorise.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mistheorise. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mistheorise,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mistheorise.

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