mistheorise

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ theorise

Verb

mistheorise (third-person singular simple present mistheorises, present participle mistheorising, simple past and past participle mistheorised)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of mistheorize.
   • 2017, Francis Chia-Hui Lin, Architectural Theorisations and Phenomena in Asia, page 194:

     Without consideration of the colony character of Malaysia in terms of its consistent interculturation with imperial and neoimperial power, multiplicity can easily be mistheorised as representing Saidian Orientalism or expatriates—such theorisations can be drawn from superficial reinterpretations of Taiwan's Tenryuubito phenomenon in recent years and Japan's Datsu-A Ron statement during the Meiji period.

   • 2020, Benjamin Zachariah, “Antonio Gramsci's Moment of Arrival in India”, in Benjamin Zachariah, Lutz Raphael, Brigitta Bernet, editor, What’s Left of Marxism, page 78:

     Many of the SS expositions, in fixing 'subaltern' as 'peasant', or as 'not-yet-proletarian', could then be said to be mistheorising altogether.