Definition of Misgovernments

1. misgovernment [n] - See also: misgovernment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Misgovernments

misgiven
misgives
misgiving
misgivings
misgo
misgoes
misgoing
misgone
misgot
misgotten
misgovern
misgovernance
misgoverned
misgoverning
misgovernment
misgovernments (current term)
misgoverns
misgracious
misgrade
misgraded
misgrades
misgrading
misgraff
misgraffed
misgraft
misgrafted
misgrafting
misgrafts
misgrew
misground

Literary usage of Misgovernments

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

1. The Speeches of the Duke of Wellington in Parliament by Arthur Wellesley Wellington, William Hazlitt (1854)
"... as clearly and as fully as I could, what was the present condition of Ireland, to which it had been reduced by a series of misgovernments ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1884)
"The disorganisation which has befallen French art may be traced through the misgovernments of a century. The transition of rulers has been precipitate ..."

3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1807)
"The whole people were sadly griev'd att these misgovernments, and loath to impute them to the king, cast all the odium upon the duke of Buckingham, ..."

4. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... but I did, indeed, dislike some misgovernments (as I conceived) of some few one or two parliaments; and I did conceive humbly that I might have reason ..."

5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1822)
"... the state of Ireland, observes, " that all the misgovernments or rather conquests of Ireland caused most of the evils under which that country suffered. ..."

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