Misally
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Misally is a verb meaning (now dated or historical) To marry badly; to marry an inferior.
Meaning
(now dated or historical) To marry badly; to marry an inferior.
More Meanings
- (rare) To wrongly join together; to wrongly ally with or to.
Example Sentences
'Tis my beliefwhen, things are misallied, The sooner they part company the better.
Despotism, ... misled him to place nearly all his family on thrones, ... and misally himself with a foreign princess, whose family and country were his unappeasable enemies.
If whites were threatened with moral deformation when they misallied with blacks, and even risked transmitting not only darkened skin, but black blood “that would attack in France the very heart of the nation,” blacks also found .
Word Forms
- misallies
- misallying
- misallied
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include misjoin, misattune, misassociate, misunite, misassemble, misalign.
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