miscennung
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Old English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Either from an unattested *miscennan + -ung or mis- + cennung.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
miscennung f
- (law) a wrong declaration, a mistake or variation in pleading before a court, or a fine exacted for this mistake
Declension[edit]
Declension of miscennung (strong ō-stem)
Descendants[edit]
- Middle English: miskenninge
- English: miskenning
References[edit]
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “miscenning”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.