misimprovement

I greatly fear that the arm of treachery and voilence are is lifted over us as a Scourge and heavy punishment from heaven for our numerous offences, and for the misimprovement of our great advantages.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 16 October 1774 1963

One evening when in company with him, he dwelt much upon his former misimprovement of time, that he now greatly regretted that he had not spent all his leisure moments in close application to useful studies, which would so much more have fortified his mind for the arduous

The Life of the Rev. Dandridge F. Davis, of the African M. E. Church. With a Brief Account of His Conversion and Ministerial Labors, from August 1834, till March 1847. Also, a Brief Sketch of the Life of the Rev. David Conyou, of the A. M. E. C. and His Ministerial Labors. To Which Is Annexed the Funeral Discourse Delivered at the Ohio Conference, in Zanesville, on the Decease of the Rev. D. F. Davis, by the Author. Augustus R. 1850

God's dealing with them upon that misimprovement; the things of their peace were hid from their eyes.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823

Their neglect and misimprovement of that season, implied in Christ's wish that they had known and improved it.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823

Spirit is not ordinarily withdrawn from them, till they forfeit it by misimprovement.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

Then let us realize, now and always, how all our uses of property will appear at the bar of God, where the thought of every misimprovement will be sharper than a serpent's fang; how, in eternity, as we contemplate those who might have been saved by our liberality in undying misery; how, if we are lifting up our eyes with them in torments; how, if, while we ourselves shall be saved as by fire, we behold them excluded from those blissful seats by our covetousness.

The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character Sereno D. Clark

_our_ failures in temper and spirit, of _our_ misimprovement of the peculiar advantages of our situation, were recorded for the warning of others -- is there any probability that we should acquire much honour by a comparison with the wife of Abraham?

Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I Francis Augustus Cox 1818