"missignify" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mis",
        "3": "signify"
      },
      "expansion": "mis- + signify",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mis- + signify.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "missignifies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "missignifying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "missignified",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "missignified",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "missignify (third-person singular simple present missignifies, present participle missignifying, simple past and past participle missignified)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with mis-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, David Cressy, “Gender Trouble and Cross-Dressing in Early Modern England”, in Journal of British Studies, volume 35, number 4, page 442:",
          "text": "It was unconsciounable that the sign should missignify, the costume deceive.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Josiah Blackmore, Gregory S. Hutcheson, Queer Iberia, page 89:",
          "text": "These are, then, (dis) simulators, subjects who missignify, who abuse signs for their own pleasure.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Brian Donnelly, The Socialist Émigré: Marxism and the Later Tillich, page 45:",
          "text": "But they are signs which, on the one hand, missignify what causes them and, on the other, cause that which, as signs, they deny.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To signify falsely; to give the appearance of something that is not true."
      ],
      "id": "en-missignify-en-verb-z3S5FF1F",
      "links": [
        [
          "signify",
          "signify"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "missignify"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mis",
        "3": "signify"
      },
      "expansion": "mis- + signify",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mis- + signify.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "missignifies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "missignifying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "missignified",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "missignified",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "missignify (third-person singular simple present missignifies, present participle missignifying, simple past and past participle missignified)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with mis-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, David Cressy, “Gender Trouble and Cross-Dressing in Early Modern England”, in Journal of British Studies, volume 35, number 4, page 442:",
          "text": "It was unconsciounable that the sign should missignify, the costume deceive.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Josiah Blackmore, Gregory S. Hutcheson, Queer Iberia, page 89:",
          "text": "These are, then, (dis) simulators, subjects who missignify, who abuse signs for their own pleasure.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Brian Donnelly, The Socialist Émigré: Marxism and the Later Tillich, page 45:",
          "text": "But they are signs which, on the one hand, missignify what causes them and, on the other, cause that which, as signs, they deny.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To signify falsely; to give the appearance of something that is not true."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "signify",
          "signify"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "missignify"
}