misgrieve

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ grieve

Verb

misgrieve (third-person singular simple present misgrieves, present participle misgrieving, simple past and past participle misgrieved)

1. To injure in a way that creates grief.
   • 1853, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides: A Prison-rhyme, page 170:

     Soul of Condorcet! — tell me that misgrieves My spirit, if unto thy thought profound Hope scintillates;

   • 1919, Frederick Christian Wellstood, Records of the Manor of Henley in Arden, Warwickshire, page 91:

     and further hit is agreed by the said twelve men that hit shalbe lawfull for any Inhabytant that finds him selfe misgrieved shall impound the said sheepe and the same to retayne vntill the said offender be content to paye x.

   • 1973, Pakistan. National Assembly, Parliamentary Debates. Official Report, page 2067:

     I respectfully state that if we defer till tomorrow it will create unnecessary misgrieving. We should be generous in giving safeguards and providing as much independence to the Judiciary as we can.

2. To grieve improperly.
   • 2008, Sheri Nicole Karstok, Harbingers of Innocence, page 19:

     Screaming, pain filled, and yearning for more peace yet none comes. All swept away, little pieces scattered to the water. I am perplexed here trapped between the lost and misgrieved.

   • 2012, Arlie Russell Hochschild, The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling, page 63:

     Yet in a wondrous variety of ways it is possible for a griever to misgrieve.