Astray vs Misgo - What's the difference?
astray | misgo |
In a wrong or unknown and wrongly-motivated direction.
To go wrong, make a mistake, go astray, become lost, miscarry.
* , The Canterbury Tales , The Parson's Tale:
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. 6, ''Monk Samson :
* 1853 , , The Newcomes , ch. 45:
As an adverb astray
is in a wrong or unknown and wrongly-motivated direction.As a verb misgo is
to go wrong, make a mistake, go astray, become lost, miscarry.astray
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Adverb
Derived terms
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misgo
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Verb
- ther is a ful noble way, and ful covenable, which may not faile to man ne to womman, that thorugh synne hath mysgon fro the right way of Jerusalem celestial [...].
- Brother Samson, in the time of the Antipopes, had been sent to Rome on business; and, returning successful, was too late,—the business had all misgone in the interim!
- Let those pity her who can feel their own weakness and misgoing .