miscreed

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noun

A bad or wrong creed.

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Meanings

nounmiscreed (plural miscreeds)

plural miscreeds

  1. poeticA bad or wrong creed.

    For foul faith's sake or craft of their miscreed

    1874, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Bothwell: A Tragedy, page 25
    1 more example

    Why then should man, teasing the world for grace, / Spoil his salvation for a fierce miscreed?

    1901, John Keats, “On Fame”, in The Complete Works of John Keats: Posthumous poems 1819-1820

Origin

From mis- + creed.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

creedism
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APA

miscreed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/miscreed

MLA

“miscreed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/miscreed. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “miscreed,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/miscreed.

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