misprision
Criminal neglect or wrongful execution of duty, especially by a public official; (countable) a specific instance of this.
historical, uncountable
[I]f any persone were perceiued to be absent, or were sene to laughe at the folye of the emperour [Nero], he was forthe with accused, as it were, of missprision: whereby the emperour founde occasion to committe him to prison or to put hym to tortures.
Misinterpretation or misunderstanding; (countable) an instance of this; a mistake.
uncountable
VVould let her out in Savvcers, ſvveete miſpriſon.^([sic])
A Feuer in your blood vvhy then inciſionIncorrect or unfair suspicion; (countable) an instance of this.
uncountable
Where it comes from
From Late Middle English misprision, mesprision (“criminal offence or illegal action, especially one committed by a public official”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman misprision, mesprision, mesprison (“criminal offence or illegal action; error, mistake, specifically an error by a court”) [and other forms] (whence Late Latin mesprisio, misprisio), and Old French mesprison, from mespris (“contempt, disdain”) (modern French mépris) + -ion (suffix indicating a condition or state). Mespris is the past participle of mesprendre (“to misunderstand”), from mes- (prefix meaning ‘badly; wrongly’) + prendre (“to take”) (from Latin prēndere, the present active infinitive of prēndō, a variant of prehendō (“to seize, take”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to find; to seize, take; to hold”)).
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry misprision (CC BY-SA 4.0).