misimitation

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ imitate +‎ -ation

Noun

misimitation (countable and uncountable, plural misimitations)

1. The act of misimitating; defective imitation.
   • 1863, Joseph Hall, edited by Philip Wynter, The Works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall - Volume 8, page 699:

     All of them have their allowed and profitable use in God's Church, though not in so high a nature; except that of extreme unction; which as it is an apish misimitation of that extraordinary course which the apostolic times used in their cures of the sick, so it is grossly misapplied to other purposes than were intended in the first institution.

   • 1971, James Joyce Quarterly - Volumes 9-10, page 295:

     We have a critical tradition that is a misimitation of the sciences, for while science seeks out the significant qualities of things, anesthetic criticism seeks out only the most easily enumerable.

   • 2018, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Complete Poetical Works of Coleridge:

     The Assassins talk ludicrously—This is a most egregious misimitation of Shakespere—Schiller should not have attempted Tragicomedy & none but Shakespere has succeeded.

   • 2018, Wilga M. Rivers, Teaching Foreign Language Skills, page 503:

     One does not hear one's own mistakes or misimitations unless they are the ones on which one is expressly concentrating one's intellectual attention.