Amiss vs Miscome - What's the difference?
amiss | miscome |
Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.
* Wollaston
(obsolete) Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
* 1635 , John Donne, "His parting from her":
To come wrongly or amiss; come at the wrong time; be inappropriate.
*1835 , James Fenimore Cooper, The pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna :
*1962 , William Barnes, Poems :
An illegitimate child.
*1936 , Oxford Journals (Firm), IngentaConnect (Online service), Notes and queries :
As adjectives the difference between amiss and miscome
is that amiss is wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice while miscome is (of a child) illegitimate.As nouns the difference between amiss and miscome
is that amiss is (obsolete) fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed while miscome is an illegitimate child.As an adverb amiss
is (archaic) mistakenly.As a verb miscome is
to come wrongly or amiss; come at the wrong time; be inappropriate.amiss
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He suspected something was amiss .
- Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff.
- His wisdom and virtue cannot always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances.
Noun
(amisses)- Now by my head (said Guyon) much I muse, / How that same knight should do so foule amis [...].
- Yet Love, thou'rt blinder then thy self in this, / To vex my Dove-like friend for my amiss [...].
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English
Verb
- "Stop your grog, indeed!", said Remarkable, rising with great indignation, and seizing a candle; "you're groggy now, and I'll quit the room before I hear any miscoming words from you."
- I asked her about my road, And whether I there had far miscome', ' Miscome unto that abode; And kindly she set me in my way, Ask me not where.
Noun
(en noun)- Don't worry; Mary's 'miscome' is not going to live."