misaccusation

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ accusation or misaccuse +‎ -ation.

Noun

misaccusation (countable and uncountable, plural misaccusations)

1. An act of misaccusing; a false accusation.
   • 1988, Wacław Zajączkowski, Martyrs of charity, page 31:

     You constantly hear the misaccusation that Christianity crucified the Jewish nation during the Holocaust.

   • 2010, Craig Calhoun, Robert K. Merton: Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science, →ISBN:

     This is truly a case of misapprehension and misaccusation.

   • 2013, Dan Smyer Yu, The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China: Charisma, Money, Enlightenment, →ISBN:

     However, he devotes the first thirty-two pages to the restoration of the public image of Buddhism from the Chinese Marxist misaccusation of it as a superstition.