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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From misintend + -ed.
Verb
misintended
- simple past and past participle of misintend
Etymology 2
From mis- + intended.
Adjective
misintended (not comparable)
- Aimed amiss or wrongly.
1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XVI”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. , London: [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature B, verso:One of thoſe archers cloſely I did ſpy, / ayming his arrovv at my very hart: / vvhen ſuddenly vvith tvvincle of her eye, / the Damzell broke his miſintended dart.
1992, Joseph F. Graham, Onomatopoetics: Theory of Language and Literature, page 233:An action can thus be misconceived or misintended even when executed perfectly, because intentions themselves have purposes beyond the realization of an action.
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