misintend
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[edit]misintend (third-person singular simple present misintends, present participle misintending, simple past and past participle misintended)
- (transitive) To intend, purpose, or direct amiss or wrongfully; mismean.
- 1967, Arthur Freeman, Thomas Kyd: facts and problems - Page 145:
- Come therefore, gentle death, and ease my griefe; Cut short what malice Fortune misintends.
- 1992, Samuel Charles Coval, Peter G. Campbell, Agency in action: the practical rational agency machine - Page 114:
- He is now misintending: he has a false intention.