Crossword-Solution: MISPRISION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Misprision | n. | The act of misprising; misapprehension; misconception; mistake. |
| Misprision | n. | Neglect; undervaluing; contempt. |
| Misprision | n. | A neglect, negligence, or contempt. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “MISPRISION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| concealment of knowledge | 1 answer |
| concealment | 71 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MISPRISION (5)
You cut down a live-oak, and Government fines you fifty dollars; you kill an alligator, and up you go for misprision of treason--lucky duck if they don't hang you, too.
Such concealment approached, in her apprehension, to a misprision, at last, of treason, if not to actual rebellion against her matrimonial authority; and in her inward soul she did vow to take vengeance on the Lord Keeper, as on a subject detected in meditating revolt.
Thyself thou gayest, thy own worth then not knowing, Or me, to whom thou gavest it, else mistaking; So thy great gift, upon misprision growing, Comes home again, on better judgement making.
For, wild Penelope, the web you wove You still unweave, unloving all your love; Is this to love me, Or what rights have I that scorn could deny? Even of your love, alas, poor Love must die, If so you love me! THE END OF IT SHE did not love to love; but hated him For making her to love, and so her whim From passion taught misprision to begin; And all this sin Was because love to cast out had no skill Self, which was regent still.
Misprision in the highest degree! Lady, _cucullus non facit monachum:_ that’s as much to say, I wear not motley in my brain.