misemployment

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Sometimes words have no right at all to be considered synonyms, and yet are continually used one for the other; having through this constant misemployment more need than synonyms themselves to be discriminated.

From On the Study of Words by Trench, Richard Chenevix

For these reasons, I think it could not justly be considered as either a misemployment or profanation of the Sabbath-day.

From The Infant System For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age by Wilderspin, Samuel

The ideas of pure reason cannot be, of themselves and in their own nature, dialectical; it is from their misemployment alone that fallacies and illusions arise.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

In the first place, I see no such custom; and if there was such a custom, there was the most abusive misemployment of it.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund