misintended
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editmisintended
- simple past and past participle of misintend
Etymology 2
editAdjective
editmisintended (not comparable)
- Aimed amiss or wrongly.
- 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XVI”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature B, verso:
- One of thoſe archers cloſely I did ſpy, / ayming his arrovv at my very hart: / vvhen ſuddenly vvith tvvincle of her eye, / the Damzell broke his miſintended dart.
- 1992, Joseph F. Graham, Onomatopoetics: Theory of Language and Literature, page 233:
- An action can thus be misconceived or misintended even when executed perfectly, because intentions themselves have purposes beyond the realization of an action.
References
edit- “misintend”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.