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noun

misgiving n. Evil premonition; doubt; distrust; a feeling of apprehension; used commonly in the plural. "Suspicious and misgivings."

verb

Misgive v. t. (past misgave; past part. misgiven; pres. part. misgiving)

To give or grant amiss. (Obs.)

Specifically: To give doubt and apprehension to, instead of confidence and courage; to impart fear to; to make irresolute; usually said of the mind or heart, and followed by the objective personal pronoun. "So doth my heart misgive me in these conflicts What may befall him, to his harm and ours." "Such whose consciences misgave them, how ill they had deserved."

To suspect; to dread. (Obs.)

Misgive v. i. (past misgave; past part. misgiven; pres. part. misgiving) To give out doubt and apprehension; to be fearful or irresolute. "My mind misgives."

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"Misgiving" Quotes from Famous Books

... were moments of misgiving, when, like the cold wind out of a tunnel, there came the memory of the Reverend Mother and the story she had told me at Nemi, there were other moments when I felt quite sure that, in marrying Lord Raa, I should be doing a self-sacrificing thing and a kind ...

— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine

... Round-head soldiers. The gallantry of Charles, Dr. Radcliffe's plots, the knavery of "trusty Tompkins,"—in fact, every part seemed to chain their attention. Many things which, while I was reading, I had a misgiving about, thinking them above their capacity, I was surprised to find ...

— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana

... he liked her enormously, he considered—assured Haldane in his moments of misgiving. The very largeness in her ample effect of good looks, her genius for managing his affairs and hers, her prim neatness of dress, her utter freedom from any sort of weak dependence on him, her uncompromising ...

— Life at High Tide - Harper's Novelettes • Various

... till I came to a little clearing in the forest. In the middle of this clearing stood a long, low hut, built with one end against a single tall cypress, which rose like a spire to the building. A vague misgiving crossed my mind when I saw it; but I must needs go closer, and look through a little half-open door, near the opposite end from the cypress. Window I saw none. On peeping in, and looking towards the further end, I saw a lamp burning, with a dim, reddish ...

— Phantastes - A Faerie Romance for Men and Women • George MacDonald

... wind reminded Pan that he had not yet rolled in his blankets, which he had intended to do until Mac New's significant statement had roused somber misgiving. He went to bed, yet despite the exertions of the long day, slumber was a contrary thing that ...

— Valley of Wild Horses • Zane Grey

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