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Overrefinement

noun
1.
The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean.  Synonyms: distortion, straining, torture, twisting.





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... folds of civilization; and of these materials was constructed a flourishing and populous empire, such as was to be found in no other quarter of the American continent. The defects of this government were those of overrefinement in legislation,—the last defects to have been looked for, certainly, in ...
— History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William Hickling Prescott


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