Meanings of misconceive in English

You cannot misconceive my motives in making this not very agreeable communication.

To hold it is wholly to misconceive the character of the Hitlerite counter-revolution.

Then, children of one Father, they could not err nor misconceive one another.

But we shall entirely misconceive their sin if we judge it by our standards.

Do not misconceive me-butmessages relative to merest chores.

But you misconceive our mutual positions, my gentle Flora.

How could the world thus misconceive and thwart him?

But" (turning to the mass) "do not misconceive me.

The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

In which case, we may tax him with more or less inconsistency, but we should not misconceive him.

To adopt Johnson's method is, in truth, to misconceive the whole nature of poetry and of poetic imagination.

Thankful I am not to think in this way now of physical law-notso to misconceive man's place in Nature.

For the folk about these parts are apt to misconceive of our sufferings, and to have no feeling for us.

Nobody who has read the striking essay in which these words appear could for a moment misconceive their author's meaning.

When people misconceive a teacher's doctrine, they generally differ in the nature of their misconceptions, and split into sections and parties.

IT WAS not unusual for company directors to confuse and misconceive increased turnover as improved profitability, a High Court judge said yesterday.