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misdiˈrected, ppl. a.
[mis-1 2.]
Wrongly directed or applied; misguided; sent to a wrong address. Hence misdiˈrectedness.
1790T. Burgess Div. Chr. 17 The vanity of mis⁓directed reason. 1828–43Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) III. 96 In a spirit of erroneous and misdirected zeal. 1850Marsden Early Purit. (1853) 381 The divinity of the times..was at once artificial, and to a great degree misdirected. 1886Kipling Departm. Ditties, etc. (1888) 48 It was a misdirected wire, Her husband was at Shaitanpore. 1965A. Farrer in J. Gibb Light on C. S. Lewis 38 The primary function of mental pain, says Lewis, is to force our misdirectedness on our attention. |