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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
misdeem .
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Examples
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Not even certain raptures, misdeemed primeval; hardly more than what falls to man and beast alike.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910
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In truth, an old salt is very much of an old maid, though, strictly speaking, far from deserving that misdeemed appellative.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
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Toward streaks, misdeemed of morn, our faces turned
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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Presently, I espied a large earthen jar full of bran standing in a corner of the room, so herein I hid the rag with the gold coins and I misdeemed that it was safely concealed from wife and wees.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Howbeit we are not ignorant that the magistrate is not provoked by our refusing to conform, except as it is misreported, misdeemed, and misconstructed to him by the false calumnies of our adversaries, which being so, he is not incited by our deed, but by theirs.
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630
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