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misintended en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˌmɪsɪnˈtɛndɪd/

Etymology

From misintend + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of misintend
    form of misintend

misintended en · ADJ · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˌmɪsɪnˈtɛndɪd/

Etymology

From mis- + intended.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Aimed amiss or wrongly.
    • One of thoſe archers cloſely I did ſpy, / ayming his arrovv at my very hart: / vvhen ſuddenly vvith tvvincle of her eye, / the Damzell broke his miſintended dart. 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XVI”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature B, verso:
    • An action can thus be misconceived or misintended even when executed perfectly, because intentions themselves have purposes beyond the realization of an action. 1992, Joseph F. Graham, Onomatopoetics: Theory of Language and Literature, page 233: