misgiving

• But this misgiving was not allowed to prejudice or impair the popular hope, resulting from the apparent successes of their arms; and one of the modes adopted for contributing to this conviction was the formal restoration of the native civil authority. —  The Life of Francis Marion
• At the bottom of all the agitation a wedding sets going in us all there is lying, I think a kind of misgiving, a secret pity for the fate of the poor rose which is picked now and must forthwith wither; and our boisterous jollification is but an awkward barely successful effort at concealing it. —  The Life of Froude
• Even so resolute a spirit as Milton's could hardly contemplate the relinquishment of every definite calling in life without misgiving, and his friends could hardly let it pass without remonstrance. —  Life of John Milton
• This was quite intolerable; a misgiving was a warning voice from God, which should be attended to as a man valued his soul. —  The Fair Haven
• But people are very shy of buying meat about which they have any misgiving, and my butcher once told me not to send him an “emergency sheep” in one of my own carts, but to ask him to fetch it himself: “It's like this,” he explained, “when a customer comes in for a nice joint of mutton, if he is a near neighbour, he will perhaps add, 'I would rather not have a bit of the sheep that came in a day or two ago in one of Mr.S. 's carts'!” —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor

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