misempower

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ empower

Verb

misempower (third-person singular simple present misempowers, present participle misempowering, simple past and past participle misempowered)

1. To empower inappropriately.
   • 1837, The Spectator - Volume 10, page 1097:

     I am afraid this must be regarded as another of the unwise attempts at tramelling; where incompetent and misempowered legislators, thinking of themselves instead of the public purposes (of which themselves were but agents) have frustrated, as far as their mistakes could frustrate, those public purposes;

   • 2017, Keli GarasYork, Pixita del Prado Hill, Leslie K. Day, Doing PDS, page 168:

     His scholarly interests explore the sociocultural dimensions of literacy education as it dis/misempowers youth and their teachers in urban environments.

   • 2017 February, Sebastian Angzoorokuu Paalo, “Political party youth wings and political violence in sub-Sahara Africa: A case of Ghana”, in International Journal of Peace and Development Studies, volume 8, number 1:

     With their associated parties, “they are at the center and the periphery; they are at the forefront and at the margins; they are misempowered agents, and they are hapless victims; they are everywhere and nowhere, everything and nothing” (Olaiya, 2014:3).