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misread Verb [-reading, -read] 1. to misinterpret or misunderstand: he misread her politeness as approval 2. to read incorrectly
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| The secrets of earth and sky and the links that bind them, we felicitate ourselves we are on the road to discover; but our neighbours' heart and mind we misread, we misjudge, we condemn now as ever. I beg your pardon; I must have misread your watch in setting my own by it. In short, the poor girl (for what could she know of the criminal intellect, which its own professed students perpetually misread, because they persist in trying to reconcile it with the average intellect of average men, instead of identifying it as a horrible wonder apart) could get by no road to any other conclusion than that he WAS a terrible man, and must be fled from. |
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