mistaking

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of mistake.

noun

1. (obsolete)A mistake.

   “I prithee, Remember, I have done thee worthy service; Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served Without grudge or grumblings: […]”

   “Now, that you may escape general mistaking in the election of your Bow, I will giue you some Rules and Notions, which if you forget not, shall preuent many mistakings.”

   “The way to find out the Truth is by others mistakings: For if I was to go to such a place, and one had gone before me on the Right-hand, and he was out; another had gone on the Left-hand, and he was out; this would direct me to keep the middle way, that peradventure would bring me to the place I desir’d to go.”