"mismotivate" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "mis- + motivate",
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      "form": "mismotivates",
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      "form": "mismotivating",
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    {
      "form": "mismotivated",
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      "form": "mismotivated",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        {
          "ref": "1944, Business Education World - Volume 24, page 397",
          "text": "We who are supposed to direct the skill learning of students bear a heavy responsibility here. We should motivate — not mismotivate; direct — not misdirect.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Daniel C. Dennett, Freedom Evolves",
          "text": "It is confusion between having a fixed nature and having a fixed future that mismotivates the anguish over determinism.",
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Allen Lawrence, Laura Edwards, “Self-Help in Gynecological Practice”, in Martha Kirkpatrick, editor, Women’s Sexual Development: Explorations of Inner Space, page 273",
          "text": "On the other hand, a woman with a major or recurrent problem (VD, unplanned pregnancies, recurrent vaginal infection, anorgasmia, etc.) needs guidance to find the root of her problem: Has she “mismotivated” herself”? Has she lost her “healthy image” of herself?",
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        "To motivate toward the wrong goal."
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  "word": "mismotivate"
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  "etymology_text": "mis- + motivate",
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      "form": "mismotivated",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2003, Daniel C. Dennett, Freedom Evolves",
          "text": "It is confusion between having a fixed nature and having a fixed future that mismotivates the anguish over determinism.",
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        },
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          "text": "On the other hand, a woman with a major or recurrent problem (VD, unplanned pregnancies, recurrent vaginal infection, anorgasmia, etc.) needs guidance to find the root of her problem: Has she “mismotivated” herself”? Has she lost her “healthy image” of herself?",
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