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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
misspense .
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- noun See
misspense .
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- noun Alternative form of
misspense .
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Though the Puritan magistrates denounced shows as a great "mispense of time," yet after a century's existence in the New World, the people was so amusement hungry that all turned avidly to any kind of exhibition, and but little was necessary to make an exhibition.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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