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misˈleader
[mis-1 5.]
One who or something which misleads or causes people to err; also, † one who misrules or misgoverns (quot. 1390).
1390Gower Conf. I. 261 Thou Bonefas, thou proude clerk, Misledere of the Papacie. 1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 774/2 A great number..which..were misleaders, & loued to disguise matters. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 508 That villanous abhominable mis-leader of Youth, Falstaffe. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xi. (1623) 679 To deliuer the Realme from the misleaders of the King. 1703Rowe Ulysses v. Wks. 1747 I. 410 Thou rash Misleader of this giddy Crowd. 1753Richardson Grandison III. i. 3 Delicacy, too, is often a misleader. 1853Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) II. 546 That Cleon, and men of his stamp..were by no means the worst misleaders of the Athenian people. 1868J. Doran Saints & Sinners II. 83 He denounced both song and music as misleaders. |