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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of missend.

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Examples

  • I do not think that the books were "missent" to Germany.

    duty on books 2005

  • Policies about confidential information can be established, and indeed better monitored on social media than breaches of the more traditional slip of tongue or missent e-mail.

    2009 April : Law is Cool 2009

  • Policies about confidential information can be established, and indeed better monitored on social media than breaches of the more traditional slip of tongue or missent e-mail.

    Get Over the Paranoia : Law is Cool 2009

  • I have no idea how your books got missent to Germany ...

    duty on books 2005

  • Elizabeth had been a good deal disappointed in not finding a letter from Jane on their first arrival at Lambton; and this disappointment had been renewed on each of the mornings that had now been spent there; but on the third her repining was over, and her sister justified, by the receipt of two letters from her at once, on one of which was marked that it had been missent elsewhere.

    Pride and Prejudice 2004

  • The one missent must first be attended to; it had been written five days ago.

    Pride and Prejudice 2004

  • The ship tore on; leaving such a furrow in the sea as when a cannonball, missent, becomes a plough-share and turns up the level field.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • And sometimes it's been in-between, and you've managed to foul up whole organizations with misplaced papers missent messages, error, and changed minds and everything else you can think of.

    Supermind Laurence M. Janifer 1967

  • La raison en est simple: quoique partout on traite les noirs avec humanité, les blancs qui ont l'argent, ne sont pas disposés à faire aux noirs des avances, telles qu'elles les missent en état d'entreprendre le commerce en grand; d'ailleurs, il faut pour ce commerce quelques connoissances préliminaires, il faut faire un noviciat dans un comptoir, et la raison n'a pas encore ouvert aux noirs la porte du comptoir.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various

  • It was the night porter, however, reading me a telegram missent to the shore and returned to the club.

    Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918

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