Mislove
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Mislove is a verb meaning (transitive) To love wrongly, insufficiently, inadequately, or imperfectly.
Meaning
(transitive) To love wrongly, insufficiently, inadequately, or imperfectly.
More Meanings
- Inadequate, imperfect, or misdirected love.
- The act or object of misloving.
Example Sentences
I do this because as a girl I learned that sex is love from my father, the first dangerous man who sexually misloved me.
We shall greet the new face of tomorrow and I shall say to this daughter of mine: "I gave birth to you, but I misloved you."
Goods such as bodily pleasure, or worldly fame and honor, or even human souls themselves are misloved unless loved for the sake of God .
Milkman "want(s) to get rich" on his own accord, so he misloves a woman (treats her like a whore) and gets an old car to ramble through ancestral homelands in search of gold.
Word Forms
- misloves
- misloving
- misloved
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mislike, misprovide, misgive, misdispose, mislook, miskeep.
Related Dictionary Tools
Sources & Attribution
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.