Misrear

Quick meaning: Misrear is a verb meaning To rear improperly.

Meaning

To rear improperly.

Example Sentences

The educated Christian girl is loath to marry into a heathen family for fear of having to misrear or lose her children under the dictate of an ignorant and superstitious mother-in-law.

She'll have five children and misrear three of them and let the other two die, so this admirable human race will be carried on to produce other Elizabeths who will produce other Elizabeths designed to produce other Elizabeths.

Born the most sensitive of children into an unhappy family that misreared and misschooled him, Rilke recoiled into introspectiveness and dilletante^([sic]) aestheticism, and long remained there; the world, or outwardness, was what had hurt him, was the enemy.

Word Forms

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