misempower

Etymology

From mis- + empower.

misempower means to empower inappropriately. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.

verb

To empower inappropriately.“I am afraid this must be regarded as another of the unwise attempts at tramelling; where incompetent and misempowered legislators, thinking of themselves instead of the public purposes (of which themselves were but agents) have frustrated, as far as their mistakes could frustrate, those public purposes;”