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(noun; historical; law) the deliberate concealment of one's knowledge of a treasonable act or a felony; (literary) Harold Bloom's term for when strong writers misinterpret their literary predecessors so as to clear imaginative space for themselves

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a sustained error that practically compels misprision

—p.79 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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featuring several actual war veterans and always allowing for misprision in the meaning of being recruited into "the Service"

—p.207 E Pluribus Unum (198) by Jeffrey Severs
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8 years ago


the acts of creative 'misprision', or swerves from origin, which Bloom sees at work in all great poetry

—p.118 The American connection (90) by Christopher Norris
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7 years, 8 months ago


they have what men call self-belief and blame you for your misprisions in their dreams

—p.331 by Martin Amis
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2 years, 1 month ago


Wong’s virtuosity in tracking multiple levels of misprision lies precisely in the extent to which she succeeds in arousing scepticism

—p.145 Molto adagio – Andante: (119) by Slavoj Žižek
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7 years, 10 months ago


The misprisions that ensnared Othello are invoked.

—p.196 The Protest Poets (188) by Jesse McCarthy
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6 months, 2 weeks ago


Whatever the misprision, these writings were twinned for me

—p.167 The Painful Sum of Things (159) by Nikil Saval, Pankaj Mishra
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5 years, 2 months ago