misconceiving
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]misconceiving
- present participle and gerund of misconceive
Adjective
[edit]misconceiving (comparative more misconceiving, superlative most misconceiving)
- Having false ideas; misleading.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- through the helpe of his faire hornes on hight, / And misty dampe of misconceiuing night, / And eke through likenesse of his gotish beard, / He did the better counterfeite aright [...].