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Mislive vs Mislove - What's the difference?

mislive | mislove |

As verbs the difference between mislive and mislove

is that mislive is to lead a wrong or vicious life; live wrongly while mislove is to love wrongly, insufficiently, inadequately, or imperfectly.

mislive

English

Verb

(misliv)
  • To lead a wrong or vicious life; live wrongly.

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) (Webster 1913)

    mislove

    English

    Verb

    (mislov)
  • To love wrongly, insufficiently, inadequately, or imperfectly.
  • *2002 , Charles Burdett, Derek Duncan, Cultural Encounters :
    • [...] of course, far from new in 1939: it is a staple of the French recit (from Manon Lescaut via Adolphe, Carmen, Sylvie, up to and beyond Gide's own four recits), in which a young man confesses how he loved, misloved', was ' misloved and lost.
  • *2003 , Rebecca Shannonhouse, Under the Influence :
    • I do this because as a girl I learned that sex is love from my father, the first dangerous man who sexually misloved me.
  • *2011 , Maryse Conde, Crossing the Mangrove :
    • We shall greet the new face of tomorrow and I shall say to this daughter of mine: "I gave birth to you, but I misloved you."