misspense
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
mis- + spense, shortened form of expense.
Noun[edit]
misspense (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Improper spending; waste.
- 1680, Isaac Barrow, Of the love of God and our neighbour, in several sermons:
- So that now to engage in contest about them, may be reasonably deemed nothing more than a wilful mispense of our time, labour and good humour [...]