Miswrite
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A failed write operation.
"Line fluctuations can cause misreads and miswrites."
- 1 To write incorrectly. transitive
"1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted in Perspectives in American Literature by Paul P. Reuben, […] but we lose ever and anon a word, or a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem."
Example
More examples"1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted in Perspectives in American Literature by Paul P. Reuben, […] but we lose ever and anon a word, or a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem."
Etymology
From Middle English miswriten, from Old English miswrītan, misƿrītan (“to write incorrectly; make a mistake in writing; miswrite”), equivalent to mis- + write.
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