misempowering

Verb

misempower (third-person singular simple present misempowers, present participle misempowering, simple past and past participle misempowered)

1. To empower inappropriately.
   • I am afraid this must be regarded as another of the unwise attempts at tramelling; where incompetent and misempowered legislators, thinking of themselves instead of the public purposes (of which themselves were but agents) have frustrated, as far as their mistakes could frustrate, those public...1837, The Spectator - Volume 10, page 1097