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"etymology_text": "mis- + attend",
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"ref": "1969, Mark Twain, Henry Huttleston Rogers, Lewis Gaston Leary, Mark Twain's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers",
"text": "I would have cabled you to withdraw it from the Century, but I didn't, for I was sure I could depend upon Gilder's declining it. If he hasn't done it, please take it away from him and charge him with being drunk and misattending to his duties.",
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"ref": "1879, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers, volume X, page 145",
"text": "Then how do you account for Mr. Goffin stating that he gave a lesson on Thursday as usual ? — I did not hear the lesson. I must have been misattending if he did give one, because we were all changing.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1995, Michael P. French, Ann Polzer Landretti, Attention Deficit and Reading Instruction, page 15",
"text": "From the bottom-up view, the reader with attention deficits may misattend to the salient features of words.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Stuart Lowe, Housing Policy Analysis, page 291",
"text": "It is a case of 'epistemic drift' as defined by Kemeny (1999), in which discourses without firm disciplinary roots tend to misattend to facts and jump to misleading conclusions.",
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"To misunderstand something; to disregard or fail to pay attention."
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"(intransitive) To misunderstand something; to disregard or fail to pay attention."
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"ref": "1869, John W. Ogle, Timothy Holmes, St. George's Hospital Reports - Volume 4, page 215",
"text": "Soon after this, she removed from my district; and in the year 1861, again, for the eighth time, was pregnant, when she now fell under the care of an unqualified medical man, who had been appointed by a board of guardians to misattend the poor of a large district.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1980, Atlantic Provinces Reports, volume 66, page 79",
"text": "However, I cannot leave this subject without lamenting the unfortuate attitude of certain members of the bar to misattend the execution of documents with complete disregard for their code of professional conduct.",
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"To fail to look after properly."
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"(transitive) To fail to look after properly."
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"text": "I would have cabled you to withdraw it from the Century, but I didn't, for I was sure I could depend upon Gilder's declining it. If he hasn't done it, please take it away from him and charge him with being drunk and misattending to his duties.",
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"ref": "1879, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers, volume X, page 145",
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},
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Stuart Lowe, Housing Policy Analysis, page 291",
"text": "It is a case of 'epistemic drift' as defined by Kemeny (1999), in which discourses without firm disciplinary roots tend to misattend to facts and jump to misleading conclusions.",
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"(intransitive) To misunderstand something; to disregard or fail to pay attention."
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1980, Atlantic Provinces Reports, volume 66, page 79",
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"To fail to look after properly."
],
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"(transitive) To fail to look after properly."
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"word": "misattend"
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