misview

Etymology

From mis- + view.

misview means an incorrect attitude or interpretation. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 95 out of 100.

noun

An incorrect attitude or interpretation“The Sessions Judge has awarded the maximum sentence allowed by law for the offence of which (under his misview of the law ) he has convicted the prisoners under s 115 of the Penal Code, viz., "abetting of the commission of an offence punishable with transportation for life, if that offence be not committed in consequence of the abetment," or as he puts it, "the said offence having been committed n”

To view incorrectly; to misinterpret.“It is, therefore, highly illogical, while subordinating the syllogism to the readier and more direct method of induction, to misview its legitimate function and to detract from the signal service it has rendered in establishing many important truths.”
To view inappropriately; to take an incorrect stance towards.“Often, we have not been taught effective ways of establishing a friendship with the opposite gender and we often misview the other person as a sex object.”