Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

misally

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mis-al-ly
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To wrongly join together; to wrongly ally with or to.

verb

To marry badly; to marry an inferior

Dated

Example Sentences

"'Tis my beliefwhen, things are misallied, The sooner they part company the better."
"Despotism, ... misled him to place nearly all his family on thrones, ... and misally himself with a foreign princess, whose family and country were his unappeasable enemies."
"If whites were threatened with moral deformation when they misallied with blacks, and even risked transmitting not only darkened skin, but black blood “that would attack in France the very heart of the nation,” blacks also found ..."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- English ally English misally From mis- + ally.

Usage

Dated

Inflected Forms

misallies (present, singular) misallying (participle, present) misallied (participle, past) misallied (past)

Questions

What does misally mean?: To wrongly join together; to wrongly ally with or to.
Where does misally come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- English ally English misally From mis- + ally.

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