misdoubt

American  

[mis-daut] / mɪsˈdaʊt /

verb (used with or without object)

1. to doubt or suspect.

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noun

1. doubt or suspicion.

misdoubt British  

/ mɪsˈdaʊt /

verb

1. an archaic word for doubt suspect

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Etymology

Origin of misdoubt

First recorded in 1530–40; mis- ¹ + doubt

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Example Sentences

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misdoubt

And your father—well, I misdoubt me that he was no better than he should be.

From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

And who would murmur and misdoubt, When God's great sunrise finds him out?

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We put him in charge of a woman, who said she'd take care of him, but I misdoubt her.

From Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Now, all that the dogs can stand, Uncle, for I misdoubt we’ll be hard-pressed to keep the life in him till we get him back to camp.”

From The Snow-Burner by Henry Oyen

"If they don't take to treat him kinder, I misdoubt me but he'll do something desperate, as the dead-and-gone heir, Rupert, did," she remarked, sitting down near her father.

From Trevlyn Hold by Mrs. Henry Wood

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