misfare

verb, noun — 3 senses

misfare

verb

UK /mɪsˈfɛː/ · /ˈmɪsfɛː/

Etymology From Old English misfaran, corresponding to mis- + fare.

1

Obsolete To go astray; to transgress, to sin.

2

Scotland To fare badly; to be unlucky.

misfare

noun

Etymology From Old English misfaran, corresponding to mis- + fare.

1

Archaic Misfortune, ill fate.

Whereto great comfort in her sad misfare / Was Amoret, companion of her care […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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