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Definition of Mistrained
1. mistrain [v] - See also: mistrain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mistrained
Literary usage of Mistrained
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Two Orations Against Taking Away Human Life, Under Any Circumstances: And in by Thomas Cooper (1846)
"Plead not, then, this plea of the necessity of yielding to unchecked impulse—to
mistaught and mistrained impulse. Plead not the impossibility of resisting ..."
2. Publications of the American Economic Association by Amos Griswold Warner, JSTOR (Organization), American Economic Association (1906)
"largely by deliberate intention has said, for instance, that when between 1840
and 1900, 50000 strangers, ignorant, mistrained, careless, and sometimes ..."
3. A Social Theory of Religious Education by George Albert Coe (1917)
"... been blamed for doing so; or adults have indulged or neglected childish impulses
that require training; or adults have misunderstood and mistrained him. ..."
4. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1891)
"... finally became to his party a real burden ; discipline and party tactics were
matters which the whimsical and mistrained man could not be brought up to. ..."
5. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1898)
"Whatever our expectations, she is not; and our mistrained babies, such of them
as survive the maternal handling, grow to be such people as we see about us. ..."
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