mismould

present singular third person mismoulds · participle present mismoulding · participle past mismoulded · past mismoulded

1. alternativeAlternative form of mismold.

   I confess that men have mismoulded the Faith again and again; but the Faith is of the pattern once and forever made in the Mount of God.

   1889, Nathan Henry Chamberlain, The Sphinx in Aubrey Parish, page 393

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   Then priests are made in the image of that Deity, and they misshape whole communities of men and women; and especially do they lay their plastic hand on the pliant matter of the child, and mismould him into deformed and unnatural shapes.

   1853, Society of Friends. Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting, Proceedings, page 77

   They are the beliefs of non-believers and the thoughts of non-thinkers, the parrot cries of a generation malformed by secular education and mismoulded by an entirely profane human environment.

   1977, Gai Eaton, King of the Castle, page 110