misgrace

present singular third person misgraces · participle present misgracing · participle past misgraced · past misgraced

1. transitiveTo grace or treat wrongly; disgrace; offend; ill-treat; disrespect

   In my chautauqua days, happily long since passed, I used frequently to misgrace the public platform and it was frequently my pleasant chore to introduce John Mason Brown.

   1959, William F. McDermott, The best of McDermott: selected writings - Page 252

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   He into Troas sent me forth, and many charges gave me, Alway to be preeminent, and play the chief to others, Nor to misgrace my fathers' breed, who foremost were in valour Alike in Argive Ephyra and Lycia's expanses.

   1856, Homer, Francis William Newman, The Iliad of Homer

1. no pluraldisgrace

   [...] — but 'tis a misgrace that you have but the one."

   1879, Lady Augusta Noel, From Generation to Generation - Volume 1 - Page 136

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   On such wise have they burned Me, taper-like, that o'er me The cup wept and the lyre Lament for my misgrace made.

   1901, Hāfiz, John Payne, Villon Society, The Poems of Shemseddin Mohammed Hafiz of Shiraz

   [...] Grace,” said Grace peevishly. “I do not like it. I never have liked it. It sounds like misgrace. Disgrace.”

   2010, Peg Kingman, Original Sins: A Novel of Slavery & Freedom - Page 39