misdoingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

misdoing (plural misdoings)

1. (uncountable) Wrongdoing. [from 13th c.]

   Synonyms: baseness, degeneracy, wickedness; see also Thesaurus:iniquity

2. (chiefly in the plural) An act of wrongdoing; a misdeed. [from 15th c.]

   Synonyms: misdemeanor, transgression, wrong; see also Thesaurus:misdeed

   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. VIII, ’’Unworking Aristocracy’’”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):

     Anti-Corn-Law League asks not, Do something; but, Cease your destructive misdoing, Do ye nothing!

   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 411:

     She questioned her husband concerning the convict's misdoings […] .