misguide

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misguide

verb misguides · misguiding · misguided

transitive To guide poorly or incorrectly; to lead astray or into error. On the whole it were better to misguide a child in knowledge, which it can remedy later, than to mistone it in feeling, for which there is no remedy. A jarring note implanted in its nature might spoil the music of its life […]
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@misc{misguide_2026,
  title = {misguide},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/misguide},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}