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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To ally inappropriately.
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- verb to wrongly join together; to marry badly
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- verb make a bad alliance; ally inappropriately
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Girls of Sidwell's delicacy do not misally themselves, for they take into account the fact that such misalliance is fraught with elements of unhappiness, affecting husband as much as wife.
Born in Exile George Gissing 1880
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