misliver
misliver noun: one who leads an evil or sinful life.
Noun
misliver (plural mislivers)
- One who leads an evil or sinful life.
- And as the huſbande ys heed over his wife: even ſo hath he commaundmente to rule hyr appetites and is damned yf he ſofre hyr to be an whore ãd a miſſe lyver / oꝛ ſubmit hymſelfe to hyr and make hir his heed.1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “A Compendious Rehersall of That Which Goeth Before”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio...
- Yet the bishops who responded to the Commons' Supplication, while acutely sensitive in general to any assault on 'the laws of the church for repression of sin and reformation of 'mislivers', hardly seem to have appreciated the potential effects of this particular line of attack, blandly observing...2017, Martin Ingram, Carnal Knowledge: Regulating Sex in England, 1470–1600, page 275
Forms of misliver
| plural | mislivers |
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Origin of misliver
From Middle English myslyver, equivalent to mislive + -er.
Questions about misliver
- What does misliver mean?
- Misliver means one who leads an evil or sinful life.
- What part of speech is misliver?
- Misliver is a noun.
- What is the plural of misliver?
- The plural of misliver is mislivers.
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