Miswend
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Miswend is a verb meaning (obsolete) To go wrong; to stray.
Meaning
(obsolete) To go wrong; to stray.
Example Sentences
But things miscounselled must needs miswend.
I now forsake the former tyme I spent. / And sorie am, for that I was miswent.
It sitteth not in no maner wyse / A thefe for theft to syt in iudgement, / A lecherous man a lechour to chastise, / Nor he that hath al his lyfe spent / In waste & riote forfeted and miswent.
Word Forms
- miswends
- miswending
- miswent
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include miswander, misween, miss, misfare, misgo, misderive.
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