Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WRONG
WRONG, v.t.
- To injure; to treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from. We wrong a man, when we defraud him, and when we I trespass on his property. We wrong a man, when we neglect to pay him his due. – Philemon 18.
- To do injustice to by imputation; to impute evil unjustly. If you suppose me capable of a base act, you wrong me.
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