misbelieve
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of misbelieve
Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at mis- 1, believe
Example Sentences
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If her aunt chose to misbelieve her, let it be so.
From Linda Tressel by Trollope, Anthony
The years would pass and he would always mistrust her smile, suspect her eyes; he would always misbelieve her voice, he would never have faith in her silence.
From Tales of Unrest by Conrad, Joseph
I misbelieve that'll ever be; don't see how it can be.
From The Lost Wagon by Kjelgaard, James Arthur
Some people miss it, and misbelieve I was ever married.
From Unleavened Bread by Grant, Robert
Peradventure thou wilt say that never a soul save thy maid, and I wist aught of thy loves; but, if so, thou hast been misinformed, and if thou so believest, thou dost misbelieve.
From The Decameron, Volume II by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)
This account of the Emperor's beauty perfectly astonished the recluses of Torbay; some misbelieved altogether, while the curiosity of others was excited beyond all bounds.
From The Surrender of Napoleon Being the narrative of the surrender of Buonaparte, and of his residence on board H.M.S. Bellerophon, with a detail of the principal events that occurred in that ship between the 24th of May and the 8th of August 1815 by Dickson, William Kirk
I heard the like in the gover'ment school before I did come over the west water, but I misbelieved the same.
From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
She partly misbelieved Miss Todd—partly wondered at her.
From The Bertrams by Trollope, Anthony
In 1975, Jaws took shark phobia to new heights, “galvanizing whole generations into misbelieving that sharks were bloodthirsty man-eaters,” MacPherson says.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2013
The mighty Máhmúd, the victorious Lord That all the misbelieving and black Horde Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul Scatters and slays with his enchanted Sword.
From Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson by FitzGerald, Edward
"How did you get here ahead of us?" asked the Princess, still misbelieving her senses.
From The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play by Goddard, Charles
Nor let the slow and misbelieving wight Doubt how the fire on the hard earth may seize; No more then how those waters erst did light Upon the sinfull world.
From Democritus Platonissans by More, Henry
Raban Maur and the Anonymous monk of Clairvaux also call it a misbelieving Jew; Peter of Capua compares it to the Cross; Saint Eucher calls it wisdom, and there are other meanings.
From The Cathedral by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)
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