misappliance
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
misappliance (countable and uncountable, plural misappliances)
- (rare) Misapplication; the act of misapplying something.
- 1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors[1]:
- Wherever he looked he saw an old ivory or an old brocade, and he scarce knew where to sit for fear of a misappliance.