(n.) The act of misprising; misapprehension; misconception; mistake.
(n.) Neglect; undervaluing; contempt.
(n.) A neglect, negligence, or contempt.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Anxiety of Influence (1973) , the book for which Bloom probably is best known, contends that the great writers of the western tradition engage in an unrelenting agon with their predecessors – and in some cases, as Bloom would quixotically have it, with themselves, and even with their successors – imitating them, borrowing from them, and engaging in creative misreadings (or misprisions, a favourite Bloomian term) of certain canonical works, chief among them the plays and poems of Shakespeare.
(2) Review of federal law revealed that the courts have consistently interpreted the federal misprision statute as requiring active concealment of a crime, not a mere failure to report, in order to convict for the offense.