misknow
Americanverb (used with object)
Other Word Forms
- misknowledge noun
Etymology
Origin of misknow
First recorded in 1250–1300, misknow is from the Middle English word misknowen. See mis- 1, know 1
Example Sentences
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Misknow, mis-nō′, v.t. to misapprehend.—n.
From Project Gutenberg
Byron did not misknow himself, nor misapprehend the most marked turn of his own character when he wrote the lines— I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the universe and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
From Project Gutenberg
It would be greatly to misknow Gibbon to suppose that his studies at Lausanne were restricted to the learned languages.
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He also scolds Bacon for being afraid that Buckingham's height of fortune might make him "misknow himself."
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Whatever real excellence he might misknow, you had but to let it stand before him, soliciting new examination from him: none surer than he to recognize it at last, and to pay it all his dues, with the arrears and interest on them.
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