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miswander (三人称単数 現在形 miswanders, 現在分詞 miswandering, 過去形および過去分詞形 miswandered)

1. (intransitive) To wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray.
   • 1542, Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “Boetius de consolatione Philosophie: The Boke”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: Printed by [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], OCLC 932884868:

     , book iii^[1]:

     The couetise of euery good is naturalli planted in the hertes of men: but the miswandryinge errour, misledeth him into fals goodes.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     Her weary palfrey, closely as she might, Now well recover'd after long repast, In his proud furnitures she freshly dight, His late miswander'd ways now to remeasure right

   • 1909, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Common, transl., Thus Spoke Zarathustra, →ISBN:

     Or show you restless, miswandering, misclimbing ones new and easier footpaths?

   • 1968, The New York Times Book Review:

     The reason for this attitude toward Spain is not far to seek, and it finds an explanation in the words of José Ortega Gasset, quoted by Mr. Trend: Is it not bitter sarcasm that after and a half centuries of miswandering we are invited to follow the ....

   • 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing, page 6:

     As if it were a maze where these orphans of his heart had miswandered in their journey in life […]