Definition of "mistranslations" [mistranslations]

• Plural form of mistranslation. (noun)

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• "To be precise, the terms "truce" and "ceasefire" are mistranslations of the Arabic word for "tahdiyeh" which actually means temporary calm."
• "We exposed the numerous, we had almost said wilful, mistranslations from the Latin and Italian -- especially the former -- with which the volume abounded."
• "He told me how the Authorised Version was a paraphrase, abounding in confusions and in mistranslations from the Greek of Erasmus's New"