"Once that misapprehension was planted in his mind, Mr Jerome's reaction to it was entirely understandable.
According to a recent poll, the average American is under the misapprehension that about 25% of the budget goes on foreign aid.
Poor school education in many countries leaves minds open to misapprehension.
When a player's whole posture was considered, this misapprehension went away: if a volunteer could see everything about a player from the table up there was no correlation between his judgments of a hand's value and its actual value.
This misapprehension, known to economists as the "lump of labour fallacy", was once used to argue that women should stay at home and leave all the jobs for breadwinning males.
The 35-hour-week rules were based on the misapprehension that there is a fixed amount of work to be shared out.
A wide misapprehension, she says, is a belief that India is Buddhist.
But as it happens, North Carolina law requires cars to have only one working brake light, so Mr Darisse's original decision to stop the suspiciously steered Escort was based on a legal misapprehension.
Yet the same story appeared so ridiculous to the University of Cape Town, staff say, that they did not trouble to deny it.To report this misapprehension is doubly sad, apart from our own regret at being caught up in it.
After rains brought temporary relief in Antwerp, the Gazette van Antwerpen reported that public prayers were held to bring more.Alarm and misapprehension were not confined to the illiterate.
Many are under the misapprehension that it is a vote to authorise new spending, not permission to pay the bills that this and earlier Congresses have already run up.
