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Definition of 'amiss'English
Adjective
( en-adj)
Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.
- He suspected something was amiss .
- Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff.
* Wollaston
- His wisdom and virtue cannot always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances.
Adverb
( en-adv)
(archaic) Mistakenly
(archaic) Astray
(archaic) Wrongly.
Noun
( amisses)
(obsolete) Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
- Now by my head (said Guyon) much I muse, / How that same knight should do so foule amis [...].
* 1635 , John Donne, "His parting from her":
- Yet Love, thou'rt blinder then thy self in this, / To vex my Dove-like friend for my amiss [...].
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