Meanings
present singular third person mistheorises · participle present mistheorising · participle past mistheorised · past mistheorised
- 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 781 more example
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
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mistheorise. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mistheorise
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