miscreed
English
Etymology
mis- + creed
Noun
miscreed (plural miscreeds)
- (poetic) A bad or wrong creed.
- 1874, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Bothwell: A Tragedy, page 25:
- For foul faith's sake or craft of their miscreed
- 1901, John Keats, “On Fame”, in The Complete Works of John Keats: Posthumous poems 1819-1820:
- Why then should man, teasing the world for grace, / Spoil his salvation for a fierce miscreed?
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