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  • verb Present participle of misdeem.
  • adjective Judging wrongly; mistaken.

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Examples

  • Evan did not hear any more voices, and misdeeming that he had got the better of his enemies, he turned, and, lo, the bed was in a yellow flame.

    My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People Caradoc Evans

  • 8 Covered with darkness and misdeeming night, misdeeming > {Misleading; to "misdeem" is also to misjudge unfavourably, to deem evil} 9 Them both together laid, to joy in vain delight. vain > weak, foolish; _or, since their bodies are made of air: _ unavailing, insubstantial

    The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

  • 1 Who, after he had fair Una forlorn, forlorn > lost; left, forsaken (catachr.) 2 Through light misdeeming of her loyalty, misdeeming > misjudgement

    The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

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