mismould

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ mould.

Verb

mismould (third-person singular simple present mismoulds, present participle mismoulding, simple past and past participle mismoulded)

1. Alternative form of mismold
   • 1853, Society of Friends. Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting, Proceedings, page 77:

     Then priests are made in the image of that Deity, and they misshape whole communities of men and women; and especially do they lay their plastic hand on the pliant matter of the child, and mismould him into deformed and unnatural shapes.

   • 1889, Nathan Henry Chamberlain, The Sphinx in Aubrey Parish, page 393:

     I confess that men have mismoulded the Faith again and again; but the Faith is of the pattern once and forever made in the Mount of God.

   • 1977, Gai Eaton, King of the Castle, page 110:

     They are the beliefs of non-believers and the thoughts of non-thinkers, the parrot cries of a generation malformed by secular education and mismoulded by an entirely profane human environment.