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misally

verb

Etymology

From mis- + ally.

  1. derived from alier
  2. derived from alier
  3. derived from alier
  4. derived from alliiet — “military or political ally”
  5. derived from allié
  6. derived from allié
  7. inherited from allie
  8. prefixed as misally — “mis + ally”

Definitions

  1. To wrongly join together

    To wrongly join together; to wrongly ally with or to.

    • 'Tis my beliefwhen, things are misallied, The sooner they part company the better.

  2. To marry badly

    To marry badly; to marry an inferior

    • Despotism, ... misled him to place nearly all his family on thrones, ... and misally himself with a foreign princess, whose family and country were his unappeasable enemies.
    • If whites were threatened with moral deformation when they misallied with blacks, and even risked transmitting not only darkened skin, but black blood “that would attack in France the very heart of the nation,” blacks also found ...

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA