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Misgovern   Listen
verb
Misgovern  v. t.  To govern badly; as, to misgovern a country.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Misgovern" Quotes from Famous Books



... Government, and Earl Grey, the new Colonial Secretary, was already learned in liberal theory, both in politics and economics, and understood that Britons, abroad as at home, {191} must have liberty to misgovern themselves. Elgin's personal qualities were precisely those best fitted to control a self-governing community. Not only was he saved from extreme views by his caution and sense of humour, but he had, to an extraordinary degree, the power of seeing both sides, and more especially the ...
— British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government - 1839-1854 • J. L. Morison



Words linked to "Misgovern" :   misgovernment, govern, rule



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