misrevise
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To revise in a manner that makes something worse.
Example Sentences
- "Inexperienced or ineffective reader-writers often misrevise their drafts, their plans and goals."
- "In 1789, the latter-day Neoplatonist Thomas Taylor (1789: 2.282) published a translation of On the Cave of the Nymphs, in which he rendered θεόπνοος as "nourished by a divine spirit" —a rendering that arguably captures some of the sense of a life-giving force. (Unfortunately [and inexplicably], Taylor [1823: 177] misrevised his translation of θεόπνοος, some thirty years later, to “inspired by divinity.")"
- "Not all of Ransom's changes are disastrous, some improve, almost all show surprising ways in which passages can be turned into variations. We are given a thousand opportunities to misrevise."