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misallying

misallying is the present participle and gerund of misally.

Meaning of misally

Verb

misally (third-person singular simple present misallies, present participle misallying, simple past and past participle misallied)

  1. (rare) To wrongly join together; to wrongly ally with or to.
    • 'Tis my beliefwhen, things are misallied,
      The sooner they part company the better.1861, C. J. Hempel, Friedrich Schiller, Complete Works. Ed. with Careful Rev. and New Tr., page 423
  2. (dated, historical) To marry badly; to marry an inferior
    • Despotism, ... misled him to place nearly all his family on thrones, ... and misally himself with a foreign princess, whose family and country were his unappeasable enemies.1845, Charles Jared Ingersoll, History of the second war between the United States of America and Great Britain, page 278

Questions about misallying

What is misallying the present participle and gerund of?
Misallying is the present participle and gerund of misally.

Words near misallying in the dictionary

  1. misallotted
  2. misallotting
  3. misallowance
  4. misallowances
  5. misally
  6. misallying
  7. misalphabetized
  8. misals
  9. misalter
  10. misaltered
  11. misaltering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misallying (page history and authors); misally (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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