Definition of Misaddressed

1. Verb. (past of misaddress) ¹

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Definition of Misaddressed

1. misaddress [v] - See also: misaddress

Lexicographical Neighbors of Misaddressed

misacceptations
misacknowledge
misacknowledging
misact
misacted
misacting
misacts
misadapt
misadapted
misadapting
misadapts
misadd
misadded
misadding
misaddress
misaddressed (current term)
misaddresses
misaddressing
misadds
misadjust
misadjusted
misadjusting
misadjustment
misadjustments
misadjusts
misadventure
misadventured
misadventurer
misadventurers
misadventures

Literary usage of Misaddressed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"One of the Letters, we at length find, is even misaddressed, — seemingly by idle Birch, at random. Happily it is with the sense alone that we are much ..."

2. Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells (1910)
"... the sender how it should be addressed ; but in the rarer case in which he does know, his self-respect or his self-love is wounded if it is misaddressed. ..."

3. English Literature During the Lifetime of Shakespeare by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1910)
"So to have misaddressed a peer of the realm might have been made a Star Chamber matter in Shakespeare's day. There still continue, however, ..."

4. The Polish Peasant in Europe and America; Monograph of an Immigrant Group by William Isaac Thomas, Florian Znaniecki (1918)
"... [misaddressed]. They refused to give me the second, saying that it was not for me, and kept it at the office. And as you sent no letter, ..."

5. First Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-1): Proceedings by D. K. Harman (1993)
"NIST express-mailed the new test data to Carnegie Mellon on the same day, but the package was misaddressed and did not arrive. A second mailing finally did ..."

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