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Amess vs Amiss - What's the difference?

amess | amiss |

As nouns the difference between amess and amiss

is that amess is alternative form of lang=en while amiss is fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.

As an adjective amiss is

wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.

As an adverb amiss is

mistakenly.

amess

English

Noun

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    • amiss

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.
    • He suspected something was amiss .
    Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff.
  • * Wollaston
    • His wisdom and virtue cannot always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (archaic) Mistakenly
  • (archaic) Astray
  • (archaic) Wrongly.

    • Noun

    (amisses)
  • (obsolete) Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
    • Now by my head (said Guyon) much I muse, / How that same knight should do so foule amis [...].
  • * 1635 , John Donne, "His parting from her":
    • Yet Love, thou'rt blinder then thy self in this, / To vex my Dove-like friend for my amiss [...].

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