misknow

[ mis-noh ]

/ mɪsˈnoʊ /

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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

mis·knowl·edge

[mis-nol-ij], /mɪsˈnɒl ɪdʒ/, noun

It would be greatly to misknow Gibbon to suppose that his studies at Lausanne were restricted to the learned languages.
Gibbon|James Cotter Morison
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
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