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misdight
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English
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- Rhymes: -aɪt
Adjective
misdight (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Arrayed, prepared, or furnished unsuitably.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Her heart gan grudge for very deepe despight / Of so unmanly maske in misery misdight.
- 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
- Despised nature suit them once aright, / Their body to their coat, both now misdight. / Their body to their clothes might shapen be, / That nill their clothes shape to their bodie.
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