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English
Etymology
From mis- + array. Compare Middle English misarraien (“to disorder”).
Noun
misarray (uncountable)
- disarray; disorder; confusion
1810, Walter Scott, “Canto V. The Combat.”, in The Lady of the Lake; , Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza XXVII, page 231:Then uproar wild and misarray/ Marr'd the fair form of festal day.
1946, Catholic World, volume 163:If need be, madam, sweep the room
But leave my desk in misarray:
So even in my den at Doom
If need be, madam, sweep the room
And gather me with but a broom.
2013, John Howard Reid, History in Movies Hollywood Style:But for me, even worse than the stilted dialogue, the stagy direction and theatrically artificial “acting”, were the totally disconcerting jump cuts between the studio scenes – artfully misdirected by Anthony Kimmins against an incredible misarray of outrageously phoney backdrops — and the location footage, into which a lot of money was obviously poured on hordes of costumed extras.
2017, William Flewelling, Inn-By-The-Bye Stories:She thanked Thyruid and rubbed her hair free from the excess water, leaving her head in a twisted, tousled misarray.
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