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Webster 1913 Edition


Misdoing

Mis-do′ing

,
Noun.
A wrong done; a fault or crime; an offense;
as, it was my
misdoing
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Misdoing

MISDOING

,
ppr.
Doing wrong; committing a fault or crime.

MISDOING

,
Noun.
A wrong done; a fault or crime; an offense.

Definition 2024


misdoing

misdoing

English

Noun

misdoing (plural misdoings)

  1. An act of misdoing; a misdeed.
    • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. VIII, Unworking Aristocracy
      […] our Governing Class […] have not yet learned even to sit still, and do no mischief! For no Anti-Corn-Law League yet asks more of them than this; — Nature and Fact, very imperatively, asking so much more of them. Anti-Corn-Law League asks not, Do something; but, Cease your destructive misdoing, Do ye nothing!

Verb

misdoing

  1. present participle of misdo