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misinfluencing

misinfluencing is the present participle and gerund of misinfluence.

Meaning of misinfluence

Verb

misinfluence (third-person singular simple present misinfluences, present participle misinfluencing, simple past and past participle misinfluenced)

  1. To influence in a detrimental manner; to act as a bad influence on.
    • It would still continue to work within as a disturbing and perturbing potency, which detracts from the proper freshness and vigour of the moral zeal, which misinfluences man more or less to yield inclinations and undercurrents of feeling, which do not appear in directly definite offences but still...1853, Julius Müller, translated by W. Pulsford, The Christian doctrine of sin, page 285

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Questions about misinfluencing

What is misinfluencing the present participle and gerund of?
Misinfluencing is the present participle and gerund of misinfluence.

Words near misinfluencing in the dictionary

  1. misinflections
  2. misinflects
  3. misinfluence
  4. misinfluenced
  5. misinfluences
  6. misinfluencing
  7. misinfo
  8. misinfographic
  9. misinfographics
  10. misinform
  11. misinformant

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