"misdistinguish" meaning in English

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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mis- + distinguish.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "misdistinguishes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misdistinguishing",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "misdistinguished",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "misdistinguished",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, volume 3:",
          "text": "So that if we imagine a difference where there is none, because we distinguish where we should not, it may not be denied that we misdistinguish.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To make wrong distinctions in or concerning."
      ],
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        [
          "distinction",
          "distinction"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, rare) To make wrong distinctions in or concerning."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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  "word": "misdistinguish"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mis- + distinguish.",
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    {
      "form": "misdistinguishes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misdistinguishing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misdistinguished",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misdistinguished",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  ],
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          "ref": "1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, volume 3:",
          "text": "So that if we imagine a difference where there is none, because we distinguish where we should not, it may not be denied that we misdistinguish.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To make wrong distinctions in or concerning."
      ],
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        [
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          "distinction"
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        "(transitive, rare) To make wrong distinctions in or concerning."
      ],
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  "word": "misdistinguish"
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