misconstruction

From mis- +‎ construction.

misconstruction (countable and uncountable, plural misconstructions)

1. A misunderstanding or misinterpretation resulting from a different meaning than intended of a word that has multiple meanings.
   • 1941 March, “The Why and the Wherefore: Track Circuit”, in Railway Magazine, page 142:

     Our attention has been called to the possibility of misconstruction in our reply given under the above heading in the December issue concerning track circuit through busy stations normally entered at low speeds.

2. (grammar) An ungrammatical phrase.
3. A misconstrual or misinterpretation.

   a misconstruction of the law

4. A mistaken or faulty construction.

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• Category:English misconstructions

• “misconstruction”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• constructionism