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Date: 1200-1300
Origin: miss 'mistake, failure'

amiss

1 adjective
     
a‧miss1 [not before noun]
if something is amiss, there is a problem [= wrong]:
Elsa continued as if nothing was amiss.
amiss with/in
There's something amiss in their relationship.
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