misarray
English
Etymology
From mis- + arrayCategory:English terms prefixed with mis-#ARRAY. Compare Middle English misarraien (“to disorder”).
Noun
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- disarray; disorder; confusion
- 1810, Walter Scott, “Canto V. The Combat.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza XXVII, page 231:
- Then uproar wild and misarray/ Marr'd the fair form of festal day.Category:English terms with quotations#MISARRAY
- 1946, Catholic World, volume 163:
- If need be, madam, sweep the roomCategory:English terms with quotations#MISARRAY
But leave my desk in misarray:
So even in my den at Doom
If need be, madam, sweep the room
And gather me with but a broom.
- 2013, John Howard Reid, History in Movies Hollywood Style:
- But for me, even worse than the stilted dialogue, the stagy direction and theatrically artificial “acting”, were the totally disconcerting jump cuts between the studio scenes – artfully misdirected by Anthony Kimmins against an incredible misarray of outrageously phoney backdrops — and the location footage, into which a lot of money was obviously poured on hordes of costumed extras.Category:English terms with quotations#MISARRAY
- 2017, William Flewelling, Inn-By-The-Bye Stories:
- She thanked Thyruid and rubbed her hair free from the excess water, leaving her head in a twisted, tousled misarray.Category:English terms with quotations#MISARRAY