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Misgive   Listen
verb
Misgive  v. t.  (past misgave; past part. misgiven; pres. part. misgiving)  
1.
To give or grant amiss. (Obs.)
2.
Specifically: To give doubt and apprehension to, instead of confidence and courage; to impart fear to; to make irresolute; usually said of the mind or heart, and followed by the objective personal pronoun. "So doth my heart misgive me in these conflicts What may befall him, to his harm and ours." "Such whose consciences misgave them, how ill they had deserved."
3.
To suspect; to dread. (Obs.)






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"Misgive" Quotes from Famous Books



... formally conducted by Dorothy, the ancient housekeeper, up a different staircase, and along many gloomy passages, into an apartment never used since some cousin or kin died in it about twenty years before. Can you stand such a ceremony as this? Will not your mind misgive you when you find yourself in this gloomy chamber—too lofty and extensive for you, with only the feeble rays of a single lamp to take in its size—its walls hung with tapestry exhibiting figures as large as life, and the bed, of dark green stuff or purple velvet, presenting ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen



Words linked to "Misgive" :   worry



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