Misseek

Quick meaning: Misseek is a verb meaning (obsolete) To seek for wrongly.

Meaning

(obsolete) To seek for wrongly.

Example Sentences

And yet the thing that most is your desire, / Ye do misseek, with more travail and care!

What missought pleasure or ill-timed errand could have brought them out on such a night?

Yet, when missought, she is often found, and when unexpected, often obtained; while those who seek for her most diligently, fail the most because they seek her where she is not.

Still this doctrine must be extended further: for thereby we gather generally that God is missought under outward shapes, which have no likeness or affinity to his heavenly glory.

Word Forms

• misseeks
• misseeking
• missought

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include misseat, missew, miss, misget, mislook, misseem.

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