Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Wrong or useless expenditure; waste; ill employment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A spending improperly; a wasting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
spending improperly ; awasting .
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Examples
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Wherefore, this being the manner of the man, I am not able to give an account unto myself or the reader of the misspense of more time in the review of such impertinencies.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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Our time is short, my friend, too short to allow an opportunity of retrieving almost any misspense of it; much more so to allow a redemption for any neglect to perform great public services when once happily in our power.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr Davis, Matthew L 1836
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Our time is short, my friend, too short to allow an opportunity of retrieving almost any misspense of it; much more so to allow a redemption for any neglect to perform great public services when once happily in our power.
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Our time is short, my friend, too short to allow an opportunity of retrieving almost any misspense of it; much more so to allow a redemption for any neglect to perform great public services when once happily in our power.
qms commented on the word misspense
The climate deniers are dense,
Unwilling to listen to sense.
There's little occasion
For fruitful persuasion -
The effort's a noble misspense.
October 2, 2016