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单词 misservice
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misservicen.

Brit. /ˌmɪsˈsəːvɪs/, U.S. /mɪ(s)ˈsərvɪs/
Forms: see mis- prefix1 and service n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mis- prefix1, service n.1
Etymology: < mis- prefix1 + service n.1, after mis-serve v.In quot. 1587 translating Middle French desseruice (see disservice n.).
Disservice, detriment.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [noun] > action of causing disadvantage > an act of
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1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxiv. 409 That seruice should rather bee a misseruice than a Seruice, if it were not according to his will.
a1660 in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1880) II. i. 119 By those reciprocall misunderstandings a gape was open for the misservice of both kinge and kingdome.
1926 Mind 35 252 The English editor of Berkeley's Works..did him the misservice of obscuring the significance of his philosophy.
1990 William & Mary Q. 47 611 A grave misservice to scholarship for years (decades?) to come.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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