▪ I. mis-ˈwish, n.
[mis-1 4.]
Wrong desire.
1865 J. Grote Moral Ideas ii. (1876) 31 Mis-craving is physical disease, mis-wish is mental. |
▪ II. mis-ˈwish, v.
[mis-1 1.]
trans. To have wrong wishes with regard to.
1831 Carlyle Misc. Ess., Early German Lit. (1840) III. 173 He men miswishes and misjudges, Inferiors scorns, superiors grudges. |
So † misˈwishing vbl. n., wrong desire.
1571 Golding Calvin on Ps. xxxv. 25 This miswishing hath bin expounded. |