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English Dictionary: Wrong! by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wrong \Wrong\ (?; 115), a. [OE. wrong, wrang, a. & n., AS.
      wrang, n.; originally, awry, wrung, fr. wringan to wring;
      akin to D. wrang bitter, Dan. vrang wrong, Sw. vr[86]ng,
      Icel. rangr awry, wrong. See {Wring}.]
      1. Twisted; wry; as, a wrong nose. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Lev. xxi.
            19).
  
      2. Not according to the laws of good morals, whether divine
            or human; not suitable to the highest and best end; not
            morally right; deviating from rectitude or duty; not just
            or equitable; not true; not legal; as, a wrong practice;
            wrong ideas; wrong inclinations and desires.
  
      3. Not fit or suitable to an end or object; not appropriate
            for an intended use; not according to rule; unsuitable;
            improper; incorrect; as, to hold a book with the wrong end
            uppermost; to take the wrong way.
  
                     I have deceived you both; I have directed you to
                     wrong places.                                    --Shak.
  
      4. Not according to truth; not conforming to fact or intent;
            not right; mistaken; erroneous; as, a wrong statement.
  
      5. Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side
            of a garment or of a piece of cloth.
  
      Syn: Injurious; unjust; faulty; detrimental; incorrect;
               erroneous; unfit; unsuitable.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wrong \Wrong\, obs.
      imp. of {Wring}. Wrung. --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wrong \Wrong\, adv.
      In a wrong manner; not rightly; amiss; morally ill;
      erroneously; wrongly.
  
               Ten censure wrong for one that writes amiss. --Pope.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wrong \Wrong\, n. [AS. wrang. See {Wrong}, a.]
      That which is not right. Specifically:
      (a) Nonconformity or disobedience to lawful authority, divine
            or human; deviation from duty; -- the opposite of moral
            {right}.
  
                     When I had wrong and she the right.   --Chaucer.
  
                     One spake much of right and wrong.   --Milton.
      (b) Deviation or departure from truth or fact; state of
            falsity; error; as, to be in the wrong.
      (c) Whatever deviates from moral rectitude; usually, an act
            that involves evil consequences, as one which inflicts
            injury on a person; any injury done to, or received from;
            another; a trespass; a violation of right.
  
                     Friend, I do thee no wrong.               --Matt. xx.
                                                                              18.
  
                     As the king of England can do no wrong, so neither
                     can he do right but in his courts and by his
                     courts.                                             --Milton.
  
                     The obligation to redress a wrong is at least as
                     binding as that of paying a debt.      --E. Evereth.
  
      Note: Wrongs, legally, are private or public. Private wrongs
               are civil injuries, immediately affecting individuals;
               public wrongs are crimes and misdemeanors which affect
               the community. --Blackstone.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wrong \Wrong\ (?; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wronged}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Wronging}.]
      1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to
            withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm
            to; to deal unjustly with; to injure.
  
                     He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul. --Prov.
                                                                              viii. 36.
  
      2. To impute evil to unjustly; as, if you suppose me capable
            of a base act, you wrong me.
  
                     I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself
                     and you, Than I will wrong such honorable men.
                                                                              --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   .
  
      {Private nuisance} [or] {wrong}. See {Nuisance}.
  
      {Private soldier}. See {Private}, n., 5.
  
      {Private way}, a right of private passage over another man's
            ground.
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