misgive
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of misgive
Vocabulary lists containing misgive
Example Sentences
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There, sit down, my dear, and don't look so eager, as if you wanted to eat me, or my mind may misgive me, and then I couldn't tell you, a'ter all.
From The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers by Cooper, James Fenimore
Right early did my mind misgive me," said Brusi, "even so soon as I heard of thee, that I should have trouble from thee: and now has that come to pass.
From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.
It was probably an unspoken sense of this fact which caused the early Tuscan poets to misgive their own powers and to turn wistfully and shyly towards the poets of Provence and of Sicily.
From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II by Lee, Vernon
I did tell Berry he'd better stay an' du what Marse Sykes wanted him ter, 'stead of comin' tu der meetin', an' my mind misgive me all day kase he didn't.
From Bricks Without Straw by Tourgée, Albion Winegar
Did you mean to put me to a last test?—or did your hard little heart misgive you at the last moment?
From The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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