misregard

1. obsoleteuncountableWrong understanding; misconstruction.

   Here well I weene , whenas these rimes be red With misregard

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

2. uncountableDisregard; failure to heed or consider; contempt; neglect.

   As to the duke's misregard of her offer, they did remit the truth of that to the report of the persons employed by herself.

   1801, Bannatyne Club, Publications - Volume 93, Issue 1 - Page 297

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   […] poem does a turnabout as the narrator justifies that "misregard" by telling the golden-age story from the Censor's standpoint: […]

   1988, Harry Berger, Revisionary Play

present singular third person misregards · participle present misregarding · participle past misregarded · past misregarded

1. transitiveTo disregard; fail to heed; ignore; neglect.

   Both minister and session were 'highly offended that he should have so far misregarded his pastor and provoked him to ire.'

   2002, Margo Todd, The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland

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   To misregard the Word is in the account of Paul, to misregard ones own Salvation, he does not prise his own Soul, as he should do: […]

   1655, William Lyford, The plain mans senses exercised to discern both good and evil

   […] yet such being their resolution, that in they would, and be worshipful upon any terms, they misregarded all formerly-used steps of promotion, accounting them but unnecessary, and most rudely rushing into the very sanctuary, they immediately hung out the orange colours to testifie their conquest of the honour of knights-baronet.

   1870, William Alexander, The Poetical Works

   Synonyms: misheed, ignore