mis-step

See also: misstep

English

Noun

mis-step (plural mis-steps)

1. Alternative form of misstep.
   • 1878 February 6, “ONE MIS-STEP.”, in The Messenger, volume XLVII, number 6 (2262), sourced from Methodist Recorder, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:

     One step may shape a character and destiny. If it be a right step, the character and destiny will be rightly shaped. If a wrong step, a mis-step, then the character and destiny will be wrongly shaped. […]
     Only one mis-step! What is it? “Why, I only gave way to a little ill-temper,” but see the result! The children observed it. Children are sharp-eyed. They are close watchers. They are quick to mark the mis-step, and they have tenacious memories.

   • 2018 June 21, “Charlotte Fox obituary”, in The Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 June 2018, Obituary‎:

     Unable to see, they lost their bearings in the dark. The wind edged them to the lip of a 7,000ft drop down the Kangshung Face. “One mis-step here and it was a one-way ticket to Tibet,” Fox said.