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English

mis- +? representation or misrepresent +? -ation

misrepresentation (countable and uncountable, plural misrepresentations)

Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement: as, to injure one's character by misrepresentations.
Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, such as of a principal in a matter of business, or of constituents in legislation.
In map-making, faultiness in a map projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different parts and to its distortion of angles.

misrepresentation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

iconotropic

of a myth or tradition that has its origin in a misrepresentation of an earlier one

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