miscreed

noun

miscreed

noun

Etymology From mis- + creed.

1

Poetic A bad or wrong creed.

  • For foul faith's sake or craft of their miscreed1874, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Bothwell: A Tragedy, page 25:
  • Why then should man, teasing the world for grace, / Spoil his salvation for a fierce miscreed?1901, John Keats, “On Fame”, in The Complete Works of John Keats: Posthumous poems 1819-1820:

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