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misbear en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English misberen, equivalent to mis- + bear.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) To carry or bear improperly; (reflexive) to carry (oneself) wrongly i.e. misbehave.
   • He thought rue she should, and forethink, That she her had unto him misbore. 1614, William Browne (poet), The Shepheard's Pipe:
   • And drawing nigh him said, Ah misborne Elfe, In evill houre thy foes thee hither sent, Anothers wrongs to wreake upon thy selfe: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
   • And if any of their wives misbear them against her husband, he may cast her out of his house and depart from her and take another, but he shall depart with her of his goods. 1968, Sir John Mandeville, Michael C. Seymour, Mandeville's Travels:

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