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单词 miscoveting
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miscovetingn.

Forms: late Middle English myscoueiting, late Middle English myscoueitynge.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mis- prefix1, coveting n.
Etymology: < mis- prefix1 + coveting n. N.E.D. (1907) took quot. a1425 to illustrate a variant of miscounting n., based on a modern editorial emendation of the manuscript.
Obsolete. rare.
Sinful desire for something.
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a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 196 To taken other folkis thing Through Robberie or myscoueiting.
a1500 St. Brendan's Confession (Lamb.) 303 in Geibun-Kenkyu (1968) 25 17 (MED) Veyn siȝtis han drawe me fro þee vnto..þe deuel, as..bi myscoueitynge, and manye oþere synnes.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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