"missignify" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "mis- + signify",
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      "form": "missignifies",
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    {
      "form": "missignifying",
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    {
      "form": "missignified",
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "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.",
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          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To signify falsely; to give the appearance of something that is not true."
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  "word": "missignify"
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    {
      "form": "missignifies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "missignifying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "missignified",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "missignified",
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        "past"
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        },
        {
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        "To signify falsely; to give the appearance of something that is not true."
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