misbear

present singular third person misbears · participle present misbearing · past misbore · participle past misborne

1. obsoleteTo carry or bear improperly; (reflexive) to carry (oneself) wrongly i.e. misbehave.

   He thought rue she should, and forethink, That she her had unto him misbore.

   1614, William Browne (poet), The Shepheard's Pipe

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   And if any of their wives misbear them against her husband, he may cast her out of his house and depart from her and take another, but he shall depart with her of his goods.

   1968, Sir John Mandeville, Michael C. Seymour, Mandeville's Travels

   And drawing nigh him said, Ah misborne Elfe, In evill houre thy foes thee hither sent, Anothers wrongs to wreake upon thy selfe:

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC