Misgive

verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    Of the mind, heart, etc.: to give fear or doubt to; to make irresolute. archaic, transitive

    "As Henry’s late presaging prophecy / Did glad my heart with hope of this young Richmond, / So doth my heart misgive me, in these conflicts / What may befall him, to his harm and ours:"

  2. 2
    suggest fear or doubt wordnet
  3. 3
    To suspect; to dread. archaic, transitive

    "[…] But for he had hir sought, / And coulde not finde hir any where, assuredly he thought / She did not liue aboue the molde, ne drewe the vitall breath: / Misgiuing worser in his minde, if ought be worse than death."

  4. 4
    To give wrongly; to give or grant amiss. archaic, transitive

    "1700, William Laud, An Historical Account of All Material Transactions Relating to the University of Oxford in The history of the troubles and tryal of the Most Reverend Father in God and blessed martyr, William Laud, Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, London: Ri[chard] Chiswell, p. 192, […] I protest unto you, I knew nothing of any of their Liberty misgiven or misused, till about a Fortnight since […]"

Etymology

from mis- + give, from Middle English give (“suggest, give”). Compare given and what gives.

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