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misdight

adjective

Arrayed, prepared, or furnished unsuitably.

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Meanings

adjectivemisdight (not comparable)

not comparableobsoleteArrayed, prepared, or furnished unsuitably.
Her heart gan grudge for very deepe despight / Of so unmanly maske in misery misdight.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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Despised nature suit them once aright, / Their body to their coat, both now misdight. / Their body to their clothes might shapen be, / That nill their clothes shape to their bodie.
1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC

Origin

From mis- + dight.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with misdight

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APA

misdight. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misdight

MLA

“misdight.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misdight. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “misdight,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misdight.

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