misresult

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ result

Noun

misresult (plural misresults)

1. An erroneous or unwanted result.
   • 1852, New York Common Council, Report of the Special Committee Appointed by the Common Council of the City of New York, to Make Arrangements for the Reception of Gov. Louis Kossuth, the Distinguished Hungarian Patriot, page 569:

     Allow me to state, that by standing such an instructive example before the world, you exercise the most effective revolutionary propaganda; because, if the misresult of French revolutions discouraged the nations from shaking off the oppressor's yoke, your victory, and still more, your unparalleled prosperity, has encouraged oppressed nations to dare what you dared.

   • 1891, Joseph William Reynolds, The Natural History of Immortality, page 179:

     Their vaunted liberty of thought and act is of that revolutionary sort which brings in the deeper, harder bondage of physical and spiritual oppression: full of "sordid misbeliefs, mispursuits, misresults,” to be trodden under foot shortly.

   • 1905 November, “Head and Face”, in Annals of Surgery, volume 44, number 5, page 756:

     The serious misresult of blindness comes not at all after paraffin of high melting point.