construing
Speech parts
1. construing - Noun
2. construing - Verb
Meaning
of Construe
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If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.
No stops are ever inserted in Acts of Parliament, or in deeds; but the Courts of law, in construing them, must read them with such stops as will give effect to the whole.
We should not be too strict in construing instruments or contracts generally drawn up on the spur of the moment.
Act 2 L'Esilio (Exile) Before the prison Alamiro and his friends lament the fate of Belisarius, whose eyes have been put out by his enemies, falsely construing and disobeying the commands of the emperor.
Construing your failure as a lack of action affords an important rhetorical benefit: it means you don’t have to lay bare the details of what you have done.
The permissive responsum on homosexuality used the Conservative movement's approach to Niddah as an analogy for construing the Biblical prohibition against male homosexual conduct narrowly and lifting restrictions it deemed Rabbinic in nature.