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miscall

[mis-kawl]

verb (used with object)

to call by a wrong name.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English; see mis-¹, call

Related forms

mis·call·er, noun

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miscall (ˌmɪsˈkɔːl)

—vb
1.	to call by the wrong name
2.	dialect to abuse or malign

mis'caller

—n

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"He has outsoared the shadow of our night;
Envy and calumny and hate and pain,
And that unrest which men miscall delight,
Can touch him not and torture not again;
From the contagion of the world's slow stain
He is secure, and now can never mourn
A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain."

-Percy Bysshe Shelley

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