Misknow
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 to misunderstand
"As to the time when he fell in it, he saith it was in time of peace, aftr he was delivered from the hands of Sennacherib, and when he was at ease in great wealth and abundance; and, as he himself confesseth, when he was beginning to misknow God, and to abuse the great benefit of his delivery, at that same time God beginneth to pull his ear, and he casteth him out of the hands of a fearful war into the hands of a terrible pest."
Example
More examples"As to the time when he fell in it, he saith it was in time of peace, aftr he was delivered from the hands of Sennacherib, and when he was at ease in great wealth and abundance; and, as he himself confesseth, when he was beginning to misknow God, and to abuse the great benefit of his delivery, at that same time God beginneth to pull his ear, and he casteth him out of the hands of a fearful war into the hands of a terrible pest."
Etymology
From mis- + know.
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