misrear

present singular third person misrears · participle present misrearing · participle past misreared · past misreared

1. To rear improperly.

   The educated Christian girl is loath to marry into a heathen family for fear of having to misrear or lose her children under the dictate of an ignorant and superstitious mother-in-law.

   1911, Edward Alsworth Ross, The Changing Chinese, page 198

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   Born the most sensitive of children into an unhappy family that misreared and misschooled him, Rilke recoiled into introspectiveness and dilletante^([sic]) aestheticism, and long remained there; the world, or outwardness, was what had hurt him, was the enemy.

   1972, Triumph - Volume 7, page 33

   She'll have five children and misrear three of them and let the other two die, so this admirable human race will be carried on to produce other Elizabeths who will produce other Elizabeths designed to produce other Elizabeths.

   2010, Sinclair Lewis, “Appendix 1: Deleted Chapter 36 from Main Street”, in James M. Hutchisson's Rise of Sinclair Lewis, 1920-1930, page 214