misfare

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UK/mɪsˈfɛː//ˈmɪsfɛː/

verb

To go astray; to transgress, to sin.

OriginOld English misfaran →
First used 9th–16th c.Scrabble 12
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Meanings

verbmisfare (third-person singular simple present misfares, present participle misfaring, simple past and past participle misfared)

present singular third person misfares · participle present misfaring · participle past misfared · past misfared

  1. obsoleteTo go astray; to transgress, to sin.First known use 9th–16th c.
  2. ScotlandTo fare badly; to be unlucky.First known use 10th c.
nounmisfare (uncountable)
  1. archaicuncountableMisfortune, ill fate.First known use 14th c.

    Whereto great comfort in her sad misfare / Was Amoret, companion of her care […].

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Old Englishmisfaran
  2. Englishmisfare

From Old English misfaran, corresponding to mis- + fare.

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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “misfare,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misfare.

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