Definition of "misdoing"

Anti-Corn-Law League asks not, Do something; but, Cease your destructive misdoing, Do ye nothing!

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. VIII, ’’Unworking Aristocracy’’”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, book III (The Modern Worker)

She questioned her husband concerning the convict's misdoings […] .

1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 411