to misgive

  • 11misgive — [c]/mɪsˈgɪv/ (say mis giv) verb (misgave, misgiven, misgiving) –verb (t) 1. (of one s mind, heart, etc.) to give doubt or apprehension to. –verb (i) 2. to be apprehensive …

  • 12misgive — v.tr. (past gave; past part. given) (often foll. by about, that) (of a person s mind, heart, etc.) fill (a person) with suspicion or foreboding …

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  • 13Misgave — Misgive Mis*give , v. t. [imp. {Misgave}; p. p. {Misgiven}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Misgiving}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To give or grant amiss. [Obs.] Laud. [1913 Webster] 2. Specifically: To give doubt and apprehension to, instead of confidence and courage; …

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  • 14Misgiven — Misgive Mis*give , v. t. [imp. {Misgave}; p. p. {Misgiven}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Misgiving}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To give or grant amiss. [Obs.] Laud. [1913 Webster] 2. Specifically: To give doubt and apprehension to, instead of confidence and courage; …

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  • 15Misgiving — Misgive Mis*give , v. t. [imp. {Misgave}; p. p. {Misgiven}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Misgiving}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To give or grant amiss. [Obs.] Laud. [1913 Webster] 2. Specifically: To give doubt and apprehension to, instead of confidence and courage; …

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  • 16doubt — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Indecision Nouns 1. doubt, dubiousness, dubiety; unbelief, skepticism, pyrrhonism, disbelief; agnosticism, irreligion; incredulity, discredit; credibility gap, image spill. See improbability, dejection.… …

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  • 17Jane Austen — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Austen. Jane Austen …

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  • 18misgiving — misgivingly, adv. /mis giv ing/, n. Often, misgivings. a feeling of doubt, distrust, or apprehension. [1595 1605; MISGIVE + ING1] Syn. suspicion, mistrust, hesitation. See apprehension. * * * …

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  • 19doubt — I (indecision) noun ambiguity, anxiety, apprehension, apprehensiveness, confusion, dubitatio, dubito, faltering, feeling of uncertainty, hesitancy, improbability, inability to decide, incertitude, indefiniteness, indeterminateness,… …

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  • 20suspect — sus·pect 1 / səs ˌpekt, sə spekt/ adj [Latin suspectus, from past participle of suspicere to look up at, regard with awe, suspect, from sub sus up, secretly + specere to look at]: regarded or deserving to be regarded with suspicion or heightened… …

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