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mistake
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Wikipedia
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A mistake of fact may sometimes mean that, while a person has committed the physical element of an offence, because they were labouring under a mistake of fact, they never formed the required mens rea , and so will escape liability for offences that require ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 An error; a blunder. 2 (context baseball English) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard to hit location, but instead ends up in an easy to hit place vb. 1 (context transitive English) To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, ...
WordNet
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v. identify incorrectly; "Don't mistake her for her twin sister" [syn: misidentify ] to make a mistake or be incorrect [syn: err , slip ] [also: mistook , mistaken ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a case of mistaken identity (= when people think that someone is a different person, especially with the result that they are accused of something that they did not do ) ▪ The defendant claimed he’d been arrested ...
Usage examples of mistake.
He told me that if I thought I was going to prove I was not in love with his wife by staying away I was very much mistaken, and he invited me to accompany all the family to Testaccio, where they intended to have luncheon on the following Thursday.
Bonaparte was, however, mistaken as to the mode of accomplishing the object he had in view.
He had later claimed that it was an unintentional error and he had been given the benefit of the doubt, since it was not impossible that after a day of harassing visits he should have mistaken the ampoule, all the more so considering the semi-darkness pervading the sick room.
He is able to apologize for his mistakes because he expects forgiveness, love, and appreciation for doing his best.
Yet it would be a mistake to imagine a renewed city with her art and architecture available for casual inspection.
It was only by summoning up all the fierceness of his temper, all the impatience of his passions, and all the mistaken haughtiness and inflexibility of his purpose, that he could resist the artless enchantment.
When the ambusher realized his mistake and stood up to try to get a better line of fire, Longarm opened up with both barrels of his shotgun.
I have assuredly made a mistake, for the time draws to an end and I feel no signs of a speedy delivery.
Saint Benedict, is that it leads us directly into the silent attentiveness in which we can catch ourselves in the act of making these mistakes.
We now proceed to quote and unfold five distinct passages, not yet brought forward, from the epistle, each of which proves that we are not mistaken in attributing to the writer 8 Antiq.
In another shortsighted mistake, UNSC Resolution 687 allowed Iraq to retain ballistic missiles with ranges under 150 kilometers and to continue to perform research and development on such missiles.
What she saw immediately explained why the receptionist mistook him for a civilian and why Ed Banning asked her to do something about his clothes.
Hiroshi and Kenzo and Jiro dropped their long lines into the Pacific, lines full of gleaming barbless hooks that a hungry tuna might mistake for a minnow.
His hands were held above it in an opaque curtain, which Barton had mistaken for a layer of dust and haze.
You are mistaken in believing yourself a free woman, bedin, and this will be proven to you.