miswear

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Etymology

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From mis- +‎ wear.

Verb

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miswear (third-person singular simple present miswears, present participle miswearing, simple past miswore, past participle misworn)

  1. (obsolete or rare) To wear badly or wrongly.
    • c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court
      the people buy in effect chaffe for corn , for that which is miswrought will miswear

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