misaccusation
nounEtymology From mis- + accusation or misaccuse + -ation.
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An act of misaccusing; a false accusation.
- You constantly hear the misaccusation that Christianity crucified the Jewish nation during the Holocaust.1988, Wacław Zajączkowski, Martyrs of charity, page 31:
- This is truly a case of misapprehension and misaccusation.2010, Craig Calhoun, Robert K. Merton: Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science, →ISBN:
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- However, he devotes the first thirty-two pages to the restoration of the public image of Buddhism from the Chinese Marxist misaccusation of it as a superstition.2013, Dan Smyer Yu, The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China: Charisma, Money, Enlightenment, →ISBN: