"misjuncture" meaning in All languages combined

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "mis",
        "3": "juncture"
      },
      "expansion": "mis- + juncture",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "mis- + juncture",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "misjunctures",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "misjuncture (plural misjunctures)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Rena Lederman, “Review of Steel to Stone: A Chronicle of Colonialism in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea by Jeffrey CLARK; Chris Ballard; Michael Nihill”, in The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 112(1): 78-80",
          "text": "The practical understandings implied in these accounts constitute what Clark (following Sahlins up to a point) calls a structure of \"misjuncture\" (p.70).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Ranjan Ghosh, “Reading and Experiencing a Play Transculturally”, in Comparative Drama, 46(3): 259-281",
          "text": "This \"unpeace,\" at once the site of conjuncture and misjuncture, vitalizes our reading and viewing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Anna Kornbluh, “The Realist Blueprint”, in The Henry James Review, 36(3): 199-211",
          "text": "The tension between the déclassé block and the particularized solids that it houses, as well as the secondary tension of junctures and misjunctures between the voids and divergent solids, activates a zone of contradictions precariously cantilevered into a delimitable whole",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, David Tomas, Transcultural Space And Transcultural Beings, Routledge",
          "text": "Conversely, in the case of Papua New Guinea, Edward Schieffelin et al. argued that encounters were more often than not characterized by \"a structure of misjuncture\" (1991:285) as opposed to a \"structure of conjuncture,\" inasmuch as different groups of peoples reacted in different ways to the Strickland-Purari and earlier or later exploratory patrols that passed through their territories, according to historical contingency and the orientations of their own particular cosmologies, rituals, and so on (1991:283-290).",
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      "glosses": [
        "A poorly articulated connection, a joining of things that functions poorly."
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "disjuncture"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "misjuncture"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mis",
        "3": "juncture"
      },
      "expansion": "mis- + juncture",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "mis- + juncture",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "misjunctures",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "misjuncture (plural misjunctures)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "disjuncture"
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Rena Lederman, “Review of Steel to Stone: A Chronicle of Colonialism in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea by Jeffrey CLARK; Chris Ballard; Michael Nihill”, in The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 112(1): 78-80",
          "text": "The practical understandings implied in these accounts constitute what Clark (following Sahlins up to a point) calls a structure of \"misjuncture\" (p.70).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Ranjan Ghosh, “Reading and Experiencing a Play Transculturally”, in Comparative Drama, 46(3): 259-281",
          "text": "This \"unpeace,\" at once the site of conjuncture and misjuncture, vitalizes our reading and viewing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Anna Kornbluh, “The Realist Blueprint”, in The Henry James Review, 36(3): 199-211",
          "text": "The tension between the déclassé block and the particularized solids that it houses, as well as the secondary tension of junctures and misjunctures between the voids and divergent solids, activates a zone of contradictions precariously cantilevered into a delimitable whole",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, David Tomas, Transcultural Space And Transcultural Beings, Routledge",
          "text": "Conversely, in the case of Papua New Guinea, Edward Schieffelin et al. argued that encounters were more often than not characterized by \"a structure of misjuncture\" (1991:285) as opposed to a \"structure of conjuncture,\" inasmuch as different groups of peoples reacted in different ways to the Strickland-Purari and earlier or later exploratory patrols that passed through their territories, according to historical contingency and the orientations of their own particular cosmologies, rituals, and so on (1991:283-290).",
          "type": "quotation"
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      "glosses": [
        "A poorly articulated connection, a joining of things that functions poorly."
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  "word": "misjuncture"
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