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misentries

misentries is the plural of misentry.

Meaning of misentry

Noun

misentry (countable and uncountable, plural misentries)

  1. An erroneous entry or charge, as of an account.
    • The rectifying ſuch Miſentries, or Miſcopyings, are not Amendments of Faults in a Record, (for that faulty miſtaken Entry is not really the Record) but making true Entries of the Record.1702 December 6 (Gregorian calendar), Mr. Broderick, quotee, “The Tryals of Haagen Swendsen, Sarah Baynton, John Hartwell, and John Spurr, […]”, in A Compleat Collection of State-Tryals, and...

Questions about misentries

What is misentries the plural of?
Misentries is the plural of misentry.

Words near misentries in the dictionary

  1. misentitling
  2. misentreat
  3. misentreated
  4. misentreating
  5. misentreats
  6. misentries
  7. misentry
  8. misenumerate
  9. misenumerated
  10. misenumerates
  11. misenumerating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misentries (page history and authors); misentry (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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