Reportedly escape arrest? It’s a fallacy

Usage examples of misapprehension.

As this detention was occasioned by an obvious misapprehension of the facts, and as justice requires that we should commit no belligerent act not founded in strict right as sanctioned by public law, I recommend that an appropriation be made to satisfy the reasonable demand of the owners of the vessel for her detention.

To guard against misapprehension it is proper to state that this proclamation does not apply to prisoners of war.

Rather than hazard the misapprehension of our military condition and of groundless alarm by a call for troops by proclamation, I have deemed it best to address you in this form.

States Navy, was dismissed from the service under a misapprehension in regard to his loyalty to the Government, from the circumstance that several oaths were transmitted to him and the Navy Department failed to receive any recognition of them.

But in the case of the rest, whose errors, committed wilfully or otherwise, are due to youth or ignorance or misapprehension, we should, I believe, merely rebuke them, or punish them in the mildest possible way.

Most people assumed that this famous accident occurred during the course of some kind of scientific experiment, a misapprehension that Thorp was happy to encourage.

The misapprehension, though instantly corrected, stuck in my mind, so that I persistently thought of the woman at the center of these group marriages as a Polly.

Insofar as my fame rests on the misapprehension that I was, it is indeed unmerited.

I was still under the misapprehension that the Khan Kubilai was, in fondo, only an ordinary man.

Probably never before had the people of one country viewed the government of another under misapprehension so complete.

I have called attention to it because I have found so much misapprehension on the subject, not only among the public, but even among members of the legal profession.

Adams and note his apparent misapprehension of questions that would tend to involve him, and note the apparent failure of his theretofore wonderfully clear and exact memory of the most trivial and unimportant details, I am inclined to reject the whole story as a fabrication that has been punctured and fallen to pieces.

What tremendous self-reliance and disdain must form the basis of a female character, which accepted misapprehension and depreciation with an indifference so genuine as to scorn even the trifling exertion of disclosing its powers.

That he mentioned this lest misapprehension should arise, but not as attaching any importance to the supposed discovery which seemed to imply Mr.

Would you be so kind as to prepare your formulation in writing, in order to eliminate the risk of misapprehension on our part of what you have in mind?