Definition of Mischiefs

1. Noun. (plural of mischief) ¹

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Definition of Mischiefs

1. mischief [n] - See also: mischief

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mischiefs

mischaracterizations
mischaracterize
mischaracterized
mischaracterizes
mischaracterizing
mischarge
mischarged
mischarges
mischarging
mischevious
mischief
mischief-maker
mischief-making
mischiefful
mischiefmaking
mischiefs (current term)
mischieve
mischievious
mischievous
mischievously
mischievousness
mischivous
mischmetal
mischmetals
mischoice
mischoices
mischoose
mischooses
mischoosing
mischose

Literary usage of Mischiefs

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

1. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1808)
"... sagacious than their neighbours does so possess them, that they make it their business and employment, to discover or to invent approaching mischiefs. ..."

2. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1839)
"mischiefs OF THE ANTI-USURIOUS LAWS. I find I have given too high an interest to one man, I have no more to do than to borrow of another at a lower rate, ..."

3. Theology: Explained and Defended, in a Series of Sermons by Timothy Dwight, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1823)
"IN the preceding discourse I proposed to consider The Nature ; The Causes ; The mischiefs; and The two first of these subjects I discussed at that time. ..."

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