(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
a sustained error that practically compels misprision
featuring several actual war veterans and always allowing for misprision in the meaning of being recruited into "the Service"
the acts of creative 'misprision', or swerves from origin, which Bloom sees at work in all great poetry
they have what men call self-belief and blame you for your misprisions in their dreams
Wong’s virtuosity in tracking multiple levels of misprision lies precisely in the extent to which she succeeds in arousing scepticism
The misprisions that ensnared Othello are invoked.
Whatever the misprision, these writings were twinned for me