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mis·know

 (mĭs-nō′)
tr.v. mis·knew (-no͞o′, -nyo͞o′), mis·known (-nōn′), mis·know·ing, mis·knows
To misunderstand.
mis·knowl′edge (-nŏl′ĭj) n.
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misknow

(ˌmɪsˈnəʊ)
vb (tr) , -knows, -knowing, -knew (-njuː) or -known (-nəʊn)
to have the wrong idea about; misunderstandto be unaware or ignorant of
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mis•know

(mɪsˈnoʊ)

v.t. -knew, -known, -know•ing.
to misunderstand.
[1250–1300]
mis•knowl′edge (-ˈnɒl ɪdʒ) n.
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"Notre-Dame-de-Paris" has, perhaps opened some true perspectives on the art of the Middle Ages, on that marvellous art which up to the present time has been unknown to some, and, what is worse, misknown by others.
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Perhaps (and more disturbingly) the "secret of her actual blamelessness" was known to her husband who found her "a consolation, the more secure perhaps, because misknown of others." This last phrase is both odd and suggestive.
The hidden laughter of women: an aspect of Pater's sensibility
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