mismatingn.
/(ˌ)mɪsˈmeɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈmeɪdɪŋ/ Unsuitable marriage, mating, or matching; an instance of this.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun] > mismatching
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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font > wrong assorting of types
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1857 Harper's Mag. May 849/1 We should grieve..if the Chairlings should mismate. But there is mismating, and mismating.
1900 T. L. De Vinne Pract. Typogr.: Treat. Type-making vi. 236 This difficulty tempts founders to make one set of small capitals serve for two or more distinct faces. An inexpert can seldom detect the mismating.
1934 Punch 10 Jan. 55/2 There is enough cruelty, halfwittedness, epilepsy, moral depravity and the mismating and obstetrical bungling that sometimes prelude these horrors.
1968 Punch 7 Feb. 205/3 Mis-matings are most common in such surroundings.
1982 Business Week (Nexis) 5 Apr. 8 I love to arrange strange marriages, delighting in such mismatings as an old man with a young girl, an unattractive widow with a youth in his prime.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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