| 单词 |
misintelligence |
| 释义 |
misinˈtelligence
[f. mis-1 4 + intelligence, prob. after F. mésintelligence.]
1. Misunderstanding between two parties; disagreement, discord. Now rare or Obs.
1639Drummond of Hawthornden Sp. for Edin. Wks. (1711) 216 Whatever those mis-intelligences have been, which might have estranged..us from your majesty. 1654–66Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 645 Her heart and face were in perfect mis-intelligence. 1765A. Maclaine tr. Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. xvii. ii. i. i. §21 (1768) IV. 323 There had subsisted..an, almost, uninterrupted misintelligence between the French monarchs and the Roman pontiffs.
2. Misunderstanding of the meaning of something; wrong impression as to facts.
1779H. Walpole Let. to Rev. W. Cole 28 Jan., I showed one or two of them [sc. some tales] to a person..who may have mentioned them, and occasioned Mr. Lort's misintelligence. [1818Todd, Misintelligence,..2. Misinformation; false accounts.] 1822Shelley Sel. Lett. (1882) 192 Their stupid misintelligence of the deep wisdom and harmony of the author.
3. Lack of intelligence or sagacity. rare.
1848Tait's Mag. XV. 703 [tr. Fr.] There reigns in our stables a rudeness, a misintelligence, which does not allow our undertaking the necessary operations for taming these animals. 1876Lowell Lett. (1894) II. 196 No doubt the government is bound to protect the misintelligence of the blacks, but surely not at the expense of the intelligence of the men of our own blood. |
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