0 a failure to understand something, or an understanding or belief about something that is not correct: --
[ + that ] Most industrialists labour under a misapprehension (= wrongly believe) that unrestrained economic growth can be achieved without damaging the environment.
1 a failure to understand something, or an understanding or belief about something that is not correct: --
I am sorry if my words were so ill-chosen as to give rise to misapprehension.
But that is the misapprehension of which we are afraid.
There is a misapprehension that must be cleared up.
The ordinary domestic ratepayer is under the misapprehension that he is paying as a percentage of his earnings more and more every year in rates.
As a result a notion has grown that the creation of architecture as a constructed object is less of an intellectual endeavour than its analysis; a serious current misapprehension.
How did such a misapprehension come about?
In neither instance can the loss of verse hypothesized above easily be charged to scribal eye-skip caused by the misapprehension of similar wordendings (known as homoioteleuton).
Genre studies that focus narrowly on describing textual forms and typologies have given rise to some misapprehensions.