mistakingly

Updated: May 26, 2025

But they should be avoided as far as possible; and the most efficient means for avoiding them is a firm, though calm and gentle, establishment and maintenance of parental authority, and not, as many mothers very mistakingly imagine, by unreasonable indulgences, and by endeavors to manage their children by persuasions, bribings, and manoeuvrings, instead of by commands.

Jacob Abbott - Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young: Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be: Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right: Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Methods: in Harmony with the Structure and the Characteristics of the Juvenile: Mind

The pressure in the Poet's Corner of the 'Record' since it was mistakingly discovered that a person of your name might be induced to seek the 'glade' and 'shade' without being 'afraid, 'dismayed, or 'betrayed, has been something enormous, and, unfortunately, I am debarred from rejecting anything, on the just ground that I am myself an interested admirer."

Bret Harte - A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready

I take the same power to witness with what bashfulness I consent to your wishes, not because I am unconscious of what I gain by complying with them, but because I fear that when I am yours you will regard me with other eyes than those with which hitherto perhaps you have mistakingly beheld me.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes