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

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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

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

From The Expressman and the Detective by Allan Pinkerton

The ship tore on; leaving such a furrow in the sea as when a cannon-ball, missent, becomes a plough-share and turns up the level field.

From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville

This package was intended for a party in Columbus, Ga. It had been missent, and forwarded by mistake to Atlanta, instead of to Macon, and from Atlanta to me in Montgomery.

From The Expressman and the Detective by Allan Pinkerton

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 Edward Smyth Jones

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