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misfasten en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + fasten.

Meanings

1. To fasten incorrectly.
   • To paraphrase Goethe, he who misfastens the first button will have trouble buttoning up his shirt. 1990, F. Neubauer, Portfolio Management, page 39:
   • She supposed that she should feel lucky that the missile hadn't exploded when the arms tech had misfastened the mount on her Sikorsky MH-60 Blackhawk. 2018, M. L. Buchman, When They Just Know:
   • When confidence is not pitched aright in God, or when it is misapplied, and misfastened to the creature: when the soul sets up somewhat for a stay and prop unto it, which it should not do, this is a spiritual and subtle sin, and must be repented of, as here, 'Asshur shall not save us,' &c. 1862, Richard Sibbes, Alexander Balloch Grosart, The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes, D.D., page 286:

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