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misforge en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + forge.

Meanings

1. To forge improperly.
   • Celine recommends that he be killed, like a sword that has been misforged. 2006, John Ringo, East of the Sun and West of the Moon:
   • A visual inspection at this point culls out the pieces which have been misforged, badly trimmed or require additional tumbling. 1977, Dan Poynter, The Parachute Manual: A Technical Treatise on the Parachute, page 95:
   • In his poems which deal with culture conflict, Ntiru attempts to draw attention to both the conscious and the subliminal tensions which manifest themselves in the relationships between the autochthonous peoples and heritage and the new men who, in Awoonor's words, are "caught between the anvil and the hammer/in the forging house of a new life." Ntiru often sees these new men as, at least, misforged; and in this he (the poet) is in agreement with his peers Angira and p'Bitek 1988 Fall, Abdul R. Yesutu, “Man at the Crossroads of Cultures: The Cultural Isolato in Modern East African Poetry in English”, in The Journal of Ethnic Studies, volume 16, number 3:
   • any fault lay with the defendants on this account, they were not responsible for the misforging of the shaft . 1921, Lloyd's List Law Reports - Volume 8, page 483:

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