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misseek

misseek verb: to seek for wrongly.

Verb

misseek (third-person singular simple present misseeks, present participle misseeking, simple past and past participle missought)

  1. (obsolete) To seek for wrongly.
    • And yet the thing that most is your desire, / Ye do misseek, with more travail and care!c. 1527–1542, Sir Thomas Wyatt, “Of the Mean and Sure Estate (written to John Poyntz)”, in Edward Arber, editor, The Surrey & Wyatt anthology, 1509-1547, published 1901, page 7
    • Still this doctrine must be extended further: for thereby we gather generally that God is missought under outward shapes, which have no likeness or affinity to his heavenly glory.1840, Jean Calvin, A commentary on the Psalms of David

Forms of misseek

third-person singular presentmisseeks
present participlemisseeking
past participlemissought
pastmissought

Origin of misseek

From mis- + seek.

Questions about misseek

What does misseek mean?
Misseek means to seek for wrongly.
What part of speech is misseek?
Misseek is a verb.
What is the past tense of misseek?
The past tense of misseek is missought.

Words near misseek in the dictionary

  1. missed the wood for the trees
  2. missed the woods for the trees
  3. missed-call
  4. missee
  5. misseeing
  6. misseek
  7. misseeking
  8. misseeks
  9. misseem
  10. misseemed
  11. misseeming

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