miscreed

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English

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Etymology

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mis- +‎ creed

Noun

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miscreed (plural miscreeds)

  1. (poetic) A bad or wrong creed.
    • 1874, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Bothwell: A Tragedy, page 25:
      For foul faith's sake or craft of their miscreed
    • 1901, John Keats, “On Fame”, in The Complete Works of John Keats: Posthumous poems 1819-1820:
      Why then should man, teasing the world for grace, / Spoil his salvation for a fierce miscreed?
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