miscreed

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ creed.

Noun

miscreed (plural miscreeds)

1. (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?