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amisses

amisses is the plural of amiss.

Meaning of amiss

Noun

amiss

  1. (obsolete) Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.
    • Now by my head (said Guyon) much I muse, / How that same knight should do so foule amis[…].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Questions about amisses

What is amisses the plural of?
Amisses is the plural of amiss.

Words near amisses in the dictionary

  1. Amison
  2. Amisons
  3. amiss
  4. Amissa
  5. amisse
  6. amisses
  7. amissibility
  8. amissible
  9. amissing
  10. amission
  11. amissness

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