noun. An act of undervaluing or disdaining; scorn; contempt.

noun. Mistake; error; misunderstanding.

noun. In law: Criminal neglect in respect to the crime of another: used especially in connection with felonies and treason, to indicate a passive complicity, as by concealment, which falls short of the guilt of a principal or accessory.

noun. More loosely, any grave offense or misdemeanor having no recognized fixed name, as maladministration in an office of public trust: also termed positive misprision, as distinguished from negative misprision, or mere neglect or concealment.

noun. The act of misprising; misapprehension; misconception; mistake.

noun. Neglect; undervaluing; contempt.

noun. A neglect, negligence, or contempt.

noun. Criminal neglect of duty or wrongful execution of official duties.

noun. Misinterpretation or misunderstanding.

"The most familiar and popular use of the term misprision describes the failure to report a crime ...."

misprision of felony  misprision of heresy  misprision of treason  

misprision of felony  misprision of treason  

Parisian  circumcision  collision  decision  derision  

accuse  attainder  attainted  cookshop  d'autrui  

contempt  misapprehension  misconception  mistake  neglect