misknow

[mis-noh]

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verb (used with object), mis·knew, mis·known, mis·know·ing.

to fail to understand or recognize; misunderstand: to misknow the problem.

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Origin of misknow

First recorded in 1250–1300, misknow is from the Middle English word misknowen. See mis-¹, know¹

Related formsmis·knowl·edge

[mis-nol-ij] /mɪsˈnɒl ɪdʒ/, noun

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Related Words

misread, misinterpret, miscalculate, overlook, confuse, misjudge, underestimate, misconstrue, overestimate, goof, miscount, err, botch, addle, lapse, omit, misconceive, blunder, confound, snarl

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Historical Examples

He also scolds Bacon for being afraid that Buckingham's height of fortune might make him "misknow himself."
The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck
Thomas Longueville
Why should we misknow one another, fight not against the enemy but against ourselves, from mere difference of uniform?
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
Thomas Carlyle
It would be greatly to misknow Gibbon to suppose that his studies at Lausanne were restricted to the learned languages.
Gibbon
James Cotter Morison