Mislike vs Mislive - What's the difference?
mislike | mislive |
(archaic) To displease.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.viii:
To dislike; to disapprove of; to have aversion to.
* I. Taylor
*1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 130:
*:And she found she didn't mislike him any longer, she felt queer and strange to him, not feared […].
* 2009 , (Hilary Mantel), Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 492:
*:‘Much as we may mislike her talk of the late cardinal appearing to her, and devils in her bedchamber, she speaks in this way because she has been taught to ape the claims of certain nuns who went before her [...].’
to dislike
To lead a wrong or vicious life; live wrongly.
As verbs the difference between mislike and mislive
is that mislike is (archaic) to displease while mislive is to lead a wrong or vicious life; live wrongly.mislike
English
Verb
- Mote not mislike you also to abate / Your zealous hast, till morrow next againe / Both light of heauen, and strength of men relate [...].
- Who may like or mislike what he says.