misrear

Verb

misrear (third-person singular simple present misrears, present participle misrearing, simple past and past participle misreared)

1. To rear improperly.
   • The educated Christian girl is loath to marry into a heathen family for fear of having to misrear or lose her children under the dictate of an ignorant and superstitious mother-in-law.1911, Edward Alsworth Ross, The Changing Chinese, page 198
   • Born the most sensitive of children into an unhappy family that misreared and misschooled him, Rilke recoiled into introspectiveness and dilletante^([sic]) aestheticism, and long remained there; the world, or outwardness, was what had hurt him, was the enemy.1972, Triumph - Volume 7, page 33