different between misdoing vs misdeed

English

Noun

misdoing (plural misdoings)

1. An act of misdoing; a misdeed.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. VIII, Unworking Aristocracy

     […] our Governing Class […] have not yet learned even to sit still, and do no mischief! For no Anti-Corn-Law League yet asks more of them than this; — Nature and Fact, very imperatively, asking so much more of them. Anti-Corn-Law League asks not, Do something; but, Cease your destructive misdoing, Do ye nothing!

Verb

misdoing

1. present participle of misdo

English

Etymology

From Middle English misdede, from Old English misd?d (“misdeed”), from Proto-Germanic *missad?diz (“misdeed”); equivalent to mis- +? deed. Cognate with Scots misded (“misdeed”), West Frisian misdied (“misdeed”), Dutch misdaad (“misdeed”), German Missetat (“misdeed”), Swedish missdåd (“misdeed”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????????? (missad?þs, “misdeed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?s?di?d/

Noun

misdeed (plural misdeeds)

1. That which was done that should not have been, ranging from any sin or moral offense to various degrees of crime.

   The petty misdeeds of his youth came back to haunt him when he ran for political office and his character was smeared.

Synonyms

• misdemeanor
• misdoing

Related terms

• misdo
• misdoer

Translations

See also

• mischief

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• Medised, demised, meddies, medised