miswander

present singular third person miswanders · participle present miswandering · participle past miswandered · past miswandered

1. intransitiveTo wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray.

   Or show you restless, miswandering, misclimbing ones new and easier footpaths?

   1909, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Thomas Common, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, →ISBN

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   Her weary palfrey, closely as she might, Now well recover'd after long repast, In his proud furnitures she freshly dight, His late miswander'd ways now to remeasure right

   1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

   The reason for this attitude toward Spain is not far to seek, and it finds an explanation in the words of José Ortega Gasset, quoted by Mr. Trend: Is it not bitter sarcasm that after and a half centuries of miswandering we are invited to follow the ....

   1968, The New York Times Book Review

   As if it were a maze where these orphans of his heart had miswandered in their journey in life […]

   1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing, page 6