mistaking

English

Verb

mistaking

1. present participle and gerund of mistake.

Derived terms

• mistakingly

Noun

mistaking (plural mistakings)

1. (obsolete) A mistake.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     I prithee,
     Remember, I have done thee worthy service;
     Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served
     Without grudge or grumblings: […]

   • 1634, Gervase Markham, chapter 7, in The Art of Archerie‎, London: Ben Fisher, page 52:

     Now, that you may escape general mistaking in the election of your Bow, I will giue you some Rules and Notions, which if you forget not, shall preuent many mistakings.

   • 1689, John Selden, “Truth”, in Table-Talk‎, London: Jacob Tonson, published 1696, page 177:

     The way to find out the Truth is by others mistakings: For if I was to go to such a place, and one had gone before me on the Right-hand, and he was out; another had gone on the Left-hand, and he was out; this would direct me to keep the middle way, that peradventure would bring me to the place I desir’d to go.