"misconfirm" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "mis- + confirm",
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      "form": "misconfirms",
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    {
      "form": "misconfirming",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "misconfirmed",
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    {
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1981, Daniel C. Dennett, “A Cure for the Common Code?”, in Ned Joel Block, editor, Readings in philosophy of psychology, page 70",
          "text": "Fodor believes that the everyday, lay explanations of behavior (of both people and beasts) in terms of beliefs and desires are of a piece with the sophisticated information-flow explanations of the neo-cognitivists, so that the self-evident acceptability of \"the dog bit me because he thought I was someone else\" ensures the inevitable theoretical soundness of something like \" the dog's executive routine initiated the attack subroutine because in the course of perceptual analysis it generated and misconfirmed a false hypothesis about the identity of an object in its environment\".",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works, Environmental Issues Related to the Use of Pesticides, page 25",
          "text": "Chemicals have been misconfirmed in the past, misidentified, and that has caused a lot of problems.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Gilbert Cockton, Alan Woolrych, “Understanding Inspection Methods: Lessons from an Assessment of Heuristic Evaluation”, in Ann Blandford, Jean Vanderdonckt, Phil Gray, editors, People and Computers XV — Interaction without Frontiers, page 186",
          "text": "When analysts mistakenly trust their common sense and misconfirm an improbable problem, they fail to exploit heuristics as a last resource.",
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        "To confirm in error."
      ],
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          "confirm"
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        [
          "in error",
          "in error"
        ]
      ]
    }
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  "word": "misconfirm"
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  "etymology_text": "mis- + confirm",
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          "ref": "1981, Daniel C. Dennett, “A Cure for the Common Code?”, in Ned Joel Block, editor, Readings in philosophy of psychology, page 70",
          "text": "Fodor believes that the everyday, lay explanations of behavior (of both people and beasts) in terms of beliefs and desires are of a piece with the sophisticated information-flow explanations of the neo-cognitivists, so that the self-evident acceptability of \"the dog bit me because he thought I was someone else\" ensures the inevitable theoretical soundness of something like \" the dog's executive routine initiated the attack subroutine because in the course of perceptual analysis it generated and misconfirmed a false hypothesis about the identity of an object in its environment\".",
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        "To confirm in error."
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