Miswant vs Miswent - What's the difference?
miswant | miswent |
To want something even though it will probably make one less happy or be harmful to one (e.g. a drug to which someone is addicted)
(misgo)
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 verbs the difference between miswant and miswent
is that miswant is to want something even though it will probably make one less happy or be harmful to one (eg a drug to which someone is addicted) while miswent is (misgo).miswant
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(en verb)See also
* miswanting * miswantedmiswent
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(head)misgo
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- 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 .