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mismould en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + mould.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of mismold.
   alt of mismold
   • Then priests are made in the image of that Deity, and they misshape whole communities of men and women; and especially do they lay their plastic hand on the pliant matter of the child, and mismould him into deformed and unnatural shapes. 1853, Society of Friends. Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting, Proceedings, page 77:
   • They are the beliefs of non-believers and the thoughts of non-thinkers, the parrot cries of a generation malformed by secular education and mismoulded by an entirely profane human environment. 1977, Gai Eaton, King of the Castle, page 110:
   • I confess that men have mismoulded the Faith again and again; but the Faith is of the pattern once and forever made in the Mount of God. 1889, Nathan Henry Chamberlain, The Sphinx in Aubrey Parish, page 393:

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