Mislayal
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The act of something being mislaid or lost. countable, rare, uncountable
"The accidental mislayal (that strikes us as a good word, whether found in any of the differing ‘authentic’ dictionaries or not) of one or two letters from Tyrone Power, and ‘Gentleman Abbott,’ both of whom contributed to our pages long years ago, has prevented our carrying out, in the present number, the ‘contrast in reminiscence,’ of which we spake, in concluding our recollections of the late Rev. Henry B. Bascom, the most eloquent of all the eminent orators in the Methodist connection."
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More examples"The accidental mislayal (that strikes us as a good word, whether found in any of the differing ‘authentic’ dictionaries or not) of one or two letters from Tyrone Power, and ‘Gentleman Abbott,’ both of whom contributed to our pages long years ago, has prevented our carrying out, in the present number, the ‘contrast in reminiscence,’ of which we spake, in concluding our recollections of the late Rev. Henry B. Bascom, the most eloquent of all the eminent orators in the Methodist connection."
Etymology
From mislay + -al.
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