单词 | misdoing |
释义 | misdoingn. 1. a. Wrongdoing, evildoing. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > [noun] unrightOE witec1175 misbodea1200 misguiltc1200 misdoinga1225 miss?c1225 trespassinga1340 forfeiturec1380 offensiona1382 crimec1384 abusion?1387 evil-doing1398 mistakinga1400 offendinga1425 transgression1426 wrongingc1449 digression1517 digressinga1535 transgressing1535 swerving1545 misdealing1571 transgress1578 misfaring1595 misacting1651 malpractice1739 malfeasance1856 wrongdoing1874 miscreance1972 society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [noun] sinc825 naughteOE unnuteOE sinningc1000 unrightOE un-i-selthlOE wonder1154 misguiltc1200 misdoinga1225 teeninga1225 miss?c1225 crimec1250 misdeed?c1250 wickednessa1300 mischiefa1387 evil-doing1398 mistakinga1400 perpetrationc1429 wrongingc1449 maledictionc1475 maleficence1533 wicked-doing1535 foul play1546 misdealing1571 flagition1598 delinquency1603 malefaction1604 meschancy1609 malefacture1635 misacting1651 guilt1726 flagitiosity1727 malpractice1739 malfeasance1856 peccation1861 miscreance1972 society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > misuse of a liberty, benefit, or trust misuser1607 abusera1616 misdoing1632 malpractice1739 malpraxis1866 a1225 MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 65 (MED) Lauerd, forȝef us..ure sunnen and ure misdonning. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 157 Ich me ssel ase moche ase ich may wyþ-oute misdoinge..ham wynne to god. c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus 2898 He..preiseth hym in his mysdoynge. 1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 2 If eny persone or persones geve eny other mete or drinke to the seid mysdoers being in stokkes..or the same prisoners favour in their mysdoyng. ?1535 M. Coverdale Goostly Psalmes sig. Miiv And after thy great benignite Forgyve thou all my mysdoynge. 1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 25 Why was sinne thus Ingenious, to excogitate so close a method for the furtherance of misdoing. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 8 My conscience doth not accuse me of misdoing. 1732 B. Franklin in Pennsylvania Gaz. 12 Sept. 3/1 Therefore when I hear of any Person's Misdoing, I think I keep within Bounds if in relating it I only make it three times worse than it is. 1791 A. Yearsley Earl Goodwin iii. 46 This Prelate, ripe in dark misdoing. 1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. 102 The glance and the blush were not for the shame of her own misdoing. 1903 Expositor Nov. 339 The laws of physical nature..are not gentle in their treatment of misdoers, nor..of those involved in the misdoing of others. 1949 I. Origo tr. Ld. Byron in Lett. & Jrnls. (1977) VII. 215 But it is unjust to attack a woman for a man's misdoing. 1998 D. Francis Field of Thirteen 240 The chairman of the grievance committee..had uttered fearsome threats: the slightest whisper of misdoing would find the Green license in the bin. b. An instance of wrongdoing, a misdeed. Chiefly in plural. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [noun] > an evil deed misdeedeOE murderOE harmOE un-i-selthlOE ungooda1250 wickednessa1325 illa1340 untetchea1375 villainy1377 wretchednessc1380 misdoingc1460 malefice1591 turpitude1597 meschantery1634 misactiona1667 naughtiness1789 wrongdoing1874 c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 10 (MED) Sacke ys pleys and amendys of mysdoynges of your men in your courte. 1543 Necessary Doctr. Christen Man sig. I ij He shall..haue pardon..of all his missedoinges. 1548 Order of Communion sig. B.iv Wee doe earnestlye repent..for these oure mysdoinges. 1613 W. Leighton Teares or Lament. 46 Blot out of minde my cursed crimes, and my misdoings all. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables ccclxxxviii. 361 That All-seeing Eye..that Observes all our Mis-doings. 1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator II. 258 The intellectual Checks we feel on every Misdoing is no more than the Prejudice of Education;—that Conscience is an airy empty Name. 1774 T. Hull Henry II ii. 19 Henry judges His own Mis-doings. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xlvii. 418 Harbouring of priests, obstinate recusancy, and Popish misdoings. 1898 L. Stephen Stud. of Biographer I. v. 168 We may forgive a misdoing which caused no permanent misery. 1930 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 35 792 In the calendar of urban misdoings unsteadiness, immorality, civic apathy, and, above all, extravagance, loom large. 1994 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 66 830 The misdoings of one person damaged the reputation of the group as a whole. 2. Law. The improper performance of an act; an instance of this. Now U.S. ΚΠ 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 325 There is another erronious proceeding and that consisteth in misdoing, as..when a day is giuen which is not legall. 1663 W. Sheppard Actions upon Case for Deeds xii. 167 Of an Action upon the Case for Doing, not doing, or mis-doing. 1958 Federal Reporter 2nd Ser. 257 341/2 It is difficult to see how evidence concerning passive failure to perform a required act in 1948 can indicate willfulness in affirmative misdoing during the following year. 1976 Federal Reporter 2nd Ser. 519 500/2 A meeting arranged by some of [his]..officers with five of its 69 employees in a motel room on March 1 was a misdoing under §8(a)(1). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † misdoingadj. Obsolete. Characterized by wrongdoing. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > [adjective] misfaringc1300 fayllarda1325 wronga1382 wrongfulc1384 misdoinga1398 misdeedya1400 wrongdoingc1400 digressinga1535 transgressing1535 offending1552 exorbitant1556 offensive1595 transgressive1646 maleficent1760 transgredient1837 society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [adjective] > doing wrong misdoinga1398 misdeedya1400 wrongdoingc1400 maleficent1760 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 112v He makþ a man brown and foule, mysdoynge [L. iniqua opærantem], slowh. c1557 Enterlude of Youth (new ed.) sig. Civv Whan I see misdoinge men Good counsell I shall geue them. 1861 Mrs. H. Wood East Lynne II. iii. i. 273 One does not care to be brought into contact with that sort of misdoing lot. 1877 M. Arnold Falkland in 19th Cent. Mar. 145 Against these misdoing men he would join in no injustice. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.a1225adj.a1398 |
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