Meaning of misally | Babel Free
Definitions
-
To wrongly join together; to wrongly ally with or to. rare
-
To marry badly; to marry an inferior dated, historical
Equivalents
Deutsch
mesalliieren
Français
mésallier
Examples
“'Tis my beliefwhen, things are misallied, The sooner they part company the better.”
“Despotism, ... misled him to place nearly all his family on thrones, ... and misally himself with a foreign princess, whose family and country were his unappeasable enemies.”
“If whites were threatened with moral deformation when they misallied with blacks, and even risked transmitting not only darkened skin, but black blood “that would attack in France the very heart of the nation,” blacks also found ...”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.