missend

American  

[mis-send] / mɪsˈsɛnd /

verb (used with object)

missent, missending

1. to send or forward, especially mail, to a wrong place or person.

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Etymology

Origin of missend

First recorded in 1400–50, missend is from the late Middle English word missenden. See mis- ¹, send ¹

Example Sentences

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missent

That person was probably trying to overcompensate for the attitudes you saw in the missent email and to make you feel welcome.

From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2021

She sat upstairs for hours, and gazed over the railing at the rows of men who were opening and examining thousands of missent letters.

From Harper's Round Table, October 22, 1895 by Various

But I have been for some time absent from London and it is possible that letters may have been missent.

From The Letters of the Duke of Wellington to Miss J. 1834-1851 Edited by Extracts from the Diary of the Latter by Wellington, Duke of

I was certain that no one knew that it had been missent.

From The Expressman and the Detective by Pinkerton, Allan

So then let not a missent word, Or thought, or act, or deed Be by our weaker brother heard To cause his heart to bleed.

From The Sylvan Cabin A Centenary Ode on the Birth of Lincoln and Other Verse by Jones, Edward Smyth