misgive
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of misgive
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Example Sentences
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This, together with some words from Richmond and the cheerfulness of Holland, makes my mind misgive me that we shall still have them created for the Committee.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II by Reeve, Henry
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
So that when I heard his heavy footstep advancing along the passage my heart did misgive me, and I felt that I was trembling.
From Relics of General Chasse by Trollope, Anthony
My mind always seems to misgive me when I think of him; and I have so strong a foreboding that he has received my last blessing, that I cannot overcome it.
From Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)
That seems hard; and your heart will misgive you.
From The Land of Footprints by White, Stewart Edward
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