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

And sometimes it's been in-between, and you've managed to foul up whole organizations with misplaced papers missent messages, error, and changed minds and everything else you can think of.

From Supermind by Laurence M. Janifer

Annie was deeply wounded, though she tried to believe that he had written and that the letter had been missent or lost.

From Opening a Chestnut Burr by Edward Payson Roe

I will give him into your hands," she said coolly, "I have letters, some from Matlock, which he thought destroyed, and two from him to Matlock which were missent and returned here.

From The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer

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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