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misappearance

noun

Etymology

From mis- + appearance or misappear + -ance.

  1. derived from apparentia
  2. borrowed from apparence
  3. prefixed as misappearance — “mis + appearance”

Definitions

  1. A false appearance

    A false appearance; An instance of seeming as other than what is the true form; an illusion.

    • Certain priests, whom he describes as conversing very learnedly together, appeared to the children, who were at some distance, like dead horses; and many the like misappearances.

  2. Something that appears in a way that it should not.

    • We know of no set of men who are more quick to detect any misappearance than the force having charge of the condition of the yard.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misappearance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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