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Definition of Misemploys
1. misemploy [v] - See also: misemploy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misemploys
Literary usage of Misemploys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Synonyms and Antonyms: With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald (1914)
"A dissolute youth misemploys his time, misuses his money and opportunities, harms
bis associates, perverts his talents, wrongs his parents, ruins himself, ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1863)
"... irreverent: literary criticism censures it as falsa Its employer precisely
does what I have imagined Galileo doing: he misemploys a true idea so as to ..."
3. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Alexander James William Morrison (1851)
"The higher light which he is possessed of in virtue of his derivation from the
Sophia he only misemploys by revolting against the superior order of the ..."
4. A Theological Dictionary: Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms by Charles Buck (1831)
"Existence is a sacred trust; hut he who misemploys and squanders it away, thus
becomes treacherous to its Author. Those powers which should be employed in ..."
5. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1842)
"It has not its origin in the imperfection or depravity of human nature, but in
a false organization of society, which deranges and misemploys all the ..."
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