mistaking

mistaking

1. present participle of mistake

mistaking (plural mistakings)

1. (obsolete) A mistake.
   • c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene 2,

     I prithee,

     Remember, I have done thee worthy service;

     Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served

     Without grudge or grumblings: […]

   • 1634, Gervase Markham, The Art of Archerie, London: Ben Fisher, Chapter 7, p. 52,

     Now, that you may escape general mistaking in the election of your Bow, I will giue you some Rules and Notions, which if you forget not, shall preuent many mistakings.

   • 1689, John Selden, Table-Talk, London: Jacob Tonson, 1696, “Truth,” p. 177,

     The way to find out the Truth is by others mistakings: For if I was to go to such a place, and one had gone before me on the Right-hand, and he was out; another had gone on the Left-hand, and he was out; this would direct me to keep the middle way, that peradventure would bring me to the place I desir’d to go.