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▪ I. misˈdoing, vbl. n.
[mis-1 3.]
Wrong-doing, evil-doing; also Law, the improper performance of an act.
1340Ayenb. 157 Ich me ssel ase moche ase ich may wyþoute misdoinge a-yens ham paye and condecendre. c1386Chaucer Melib. ⁋741 He that supporteth him and preyseth him in his misdoinge. 1495[see prec.]. c1540Coverdale Goostly Psalmes Wks. 1846 II. 579 And after thy great benignite Forgyve thou all my mysdoynge. 1628[see miscontinuance]. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 8 My conscience doth not accuse me of misdoing. 1675W. Sheppard Actions, etc. xii. 357 Of an Action upon the Case for Doing, not Doing, or Mis-doing. 1880‘Ouida’ Moths I. 102 The glance and the blush were not for the shame of her own misdoing. 1903[see prec.].
b. An instance of wrong-doing, a misdeed. Chiefly in pl.
1543Necessary Doctrine I ij, He shall..haue pardon..of all his missedoinges. 1547–8Ordre of Commvnion 13 Wee do earnestly repent..for these our misdoynges. 1692R. L'Estrange Fables ccclxxxviii. 361 That All-seeing Eye..that Observes all our Mis-doings. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xlvii, Harbouring of priests, obstinate recusancy, and Popish misdoings. 1898L. Stephen Stud. Biogr. I. v. 168 We may forgive a misdoing which caused no permanent misery.
▪ II. misˈdoing, ppl. a.
[mis-1 2.]
Doing wrong.
1554Interlude of Youth (1557) C iv b, Whan ye se mysdoing men Good counsell geue them. |