Definition of "misreadings" [misreadings]

• Plural form of misreading. (noun)

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• "None of these misreadings is very gross in itself, but their cumulative effect is to exaggerate the psychological incoherence of the play."
• "Moreover, both authors avowedly bring a literary critic's sensibility to the texts under discussion, whether it's Wheeler's interest in the language of Protestantism's and Catholicism's mutual "misreadings" (xi) or Marotti's in "religious and political language and myth-making" (1)."
• ""Get to work on those 'misreadings' of the instruments for one thing, and for a second, and more important, line every IP ship with paraffin blocks six inches thick.""