Misfare vs Misfire - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between misfare and misfire

is that misfare is to go astray; to transgress, to sin while misfire is to fail to discharge properly.

is that misfare is misfortune, ill fate while misfire is an act of misfiring.

(misfar)

(obsolete) To go astray; to transgress, to sin.

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*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:

*:Whereto great comfort in her sad misfare / Was Amoret, companion of her care […].

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(en noun)

An act of misfiring.

(misfir)

(of a firearm) To fail to discharge properly

(of an engine) To fail to ignite in the proper sequence

(of a plan) To fail to achieve the anticipated result

His practical joke misfired and he nearly burnt my left hand.