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Definitions: MISPRISION |
MISPRISIONNoun1. A neglect, negligence, or contempt. 2. Neglect; undervaluing; contempt. 3. The act of misprising; misapprehension; misconception; mistake. |
Date "MISPRISION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Misprision Concealment, neglect of. (French, mépris.) Misprision of clerks. Mistakes in accounts arising from neglect. Misprision of felony. Neglecting to reveal a felony when known. Misprision of treason. Neglecting to disclose or purposely concealing a treasonable design. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concealment | Reticence; reserve; mental reserve, reservation; arriere pensee, suppression, evasion, white lie, misprision; silence; (taciturnity); suppression of truth; underhand dealing; closeness, secretiveness; Adjective: mystery. |
Disobedience | Mutinousness; Adjective: mutineering; sedition, treason; high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason; premunire; lese majeste; violation of law; defection, secession. |
Guilt | Offense, trespass; misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision; malefaction, malfeasance, malversation; crime, felony. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "MISPRISION" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MISPRISION" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "MISPRISION": misprision of felony ♦ misprision of treason. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "MISPRISION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | укривателство, престъпно нехайство. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megvetés (contempt, despite, disdain, flout, loathing, scorn, spurn), tévedés (blue, bobble, deception, delusion, error, failure, fallacy, fault, flaw, inaccuracy, lapse, misapprehension, miscalculation, miss, mistake, oversight, wrong), kötelességmulasztás (delinquency, dereliction of duty, infraction of duty, neglect of duty, nonfeasance), félremagyarázás (misinterpretation, misreading), félreértés (cross-purposes, misapprehension, miscomprehension, misconception, misreading, mistake, misunderstanding), aláértékelés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | isprisionmay suça göz yumma, küçük görme, görevi kötüye kullanma (malpractice). (various references) sự khinh rẻ (contempt), sự coi khinh sự đánh giá thấp. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "MISPRISION": misprisions. (additional references) | |
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"MISPRISION" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: misprison. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MISPRISION" (pronounced mi'spri"zhun) |
| 4 | -i" zh u n | circumcision, collision, decision, derision, division, envision, excision, incision, indecision, precision, provision, recision, rescission, revision, supervision, vision. |
| 3 | -zh u n | abrasion, allusion, aspersion, aversion, cohesion, collusion, conclusion, confusion, contusion, conversion, corrosion, delusion, diffusion, disillusion, dispersion, diversion, equation, erosion, evasion, exclusion, excursion, explosion, extrusion, fusion, illusion, immersion, implosion, inclusion, incursion, infusion, intrusion, invasion, inversion, lesion, occasion, occlusion, persuasion, perversion, preclusion, profusion, reversion, seclusion, suasion, subdivision, submersion, subversion, television, transfusion, version. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-i-m-n-o-p-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: imprisons. | |
-2 letters: imprison. | |
-3 letters: isospin, mission, pissoir, porisms, prisons, spinors. | |
-4 letters: minors, miosis, opsins, orpins, porism, primos, prions, prisms, prison, rosins, spinor. | |
-5 letters: imino, impis, irons, minis, minor, misos, morns, noirs, noris, norms, opsin, ornis, orpin, pions, pirns, pisos, porns, primi, primo, prims, prion, prism, priss, proms, pross, romps, rosin, simps, snips, sorns, spins. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-i-m-n-o-p-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: misprisions. | |
+2 letters: imprecisions. | |
+3 letters: impressionism, impressionist, misimpression, reimpositions. | |
+4 letters: impressionisms, impressionists, improvisations, misdescription, misimpressions, provincialisms. | |
+5 letters: impersonalities, impressionistic, misdescriptions, superimposition. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 49 53 50 52 49 53 49 4F 4E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01001001 01010011 01010000 01010010 01001001 01010011 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M I S P R I S I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0049 0053 0050 0052 0049 0053 0049 004F 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47435350524353434948 |
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