misstatement
Something stated wrongly; a (usually unintentionally) incorrect statement.
Noun
- Something stated wrongly; a (usually unintentionally) incorrect statement.
- Again we read at page 174: “Instead of the Universal Roman Catholic Church there existed after 1650 the National Catholic Churches of Spain, France, Austria, Poland, etc. more subject to the Royal supremacy than to the...
- his gubernatorial campaign, noteworthy mostly for his seemingly daily racist and otherwise offensive misstatements - 1990 April 7, Laura Briggs, “Silber Comes Out Against Homophobia”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- English statement English misstatement From mis- + statement.