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Definition of Misemploying
1. misemploy [v] - See also: misemploy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misemploying
Literary usage of Misemploying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Extracts from the Religious Works of La Mothe Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray (1826)
"ON THE PROPER USE OF OUR TIME, AND THE DANGER OF misemploying IT. 1. IT is not
necessary to enforce the absolute duty of employing your time well, ..."
2. An Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, and Nursery Rhymes by John Bellender Ker (1837)
"find you may be sure you are going right,; take t humean» which conscience
approves, anil you may Jx- certain you are not misemploying your time я* regards ..."
3. An Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, and Nursery Rhymes by John Bellenden Ker (1837)
"and you may be sure you are going right; take the means which conscience approves,
and you may be certain you are not misemploying ..."
4. The Observer by Richard Cumberland (1822)
"Then I heartily ask pardon of the company for misemploying their time so
egregiously:"—and stalked away without waiting for an answer. ..."
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