mistimingn.
/mɪsˈtʌɪmɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈtaɪmɪŋ/ 1. The action of timing incorrectly; doing or saying something at a wrong time; an instance of this. Also: miscalculation of the time of an event, etc.
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [noun] > of actions
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > [noun] > in calculation > instance of > of time
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1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xvi. 73 The rule of health condemnes not daunsing, but the mistyming of it.
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. 11 He endures affronts, mistimings, tedious waytings.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 53 If he be guilty in Mis-timing of actions, he is not the onely Historian without company in that particular.
1693 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. I. iv. 152 There was no great mis-timing of the Story.
1765 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (ed. 3) 301 If..there was any mis~timing in the Case it must lie on the Part of those Plotters for timing the breaking forth of their Plot.
1873 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism II. §751 The error arising from a mistiming of the current.
1970 V. Canning Great Affair xvii. 319 There was a little mistiming at Sokota so your friend King Alfy is on the loose.
1991 M. Munn Hollywood Rogues (BNC) 99 In a severe case of mistiming..the package arrived five days before he did.
2. Chiefly Scottish. Irregularity in hours or routine.
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1846 W. Cross Disruption xxxii. 348 This illness Maun have maid Him less fit to thole Ony mistiming either of Meet or Sleep.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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