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Definition of Misaddressed
1. misaddress [v] - See also: misaddress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misaddressed
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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