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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misgive.

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Examples

  • My heart, in short, misgives me less, when I resolve this way, than when I think of the other: and in so strong and involuntary a bias, the heart is, as I may say, conscience.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • My heart, in short, misgives me less, when I resolve this way, than when

    Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Samuel Richardson 1725

  • My mind misgives me that I shall die in bondage, and that this bold attempt will cost all our lives.

    The Abbot 2008

  • If the process misgives, which it very seldom does with women who practise it extensively, it generally happens during the second four days or the fermenting period.

    The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008

  • I fear him much; and somewhat my mind misgives me lest he have met and slain Dolon as well; for

    Rhesus 2008

  • I fear him much; and somewhat my mind misgives me lest he have met and slain Dolon as well; for

    Rhesus 2008

  • Therefore, Thomas said to Francis on a day when they had looked at the sea and eaten the shrimps, ‘My mind misgives me, Goodchild, that you go to Maryport, like the boy in the story-book, to ask IT to be idle with you.’

    The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

  • And this, that I might, if complied with, suspend the appointment I have made with Mr. Lovelace; for my heart misgives me as to meeting him; and that more and more; I know not why.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • But yet my heart misgives me, because of the difficulties before me, in escaping; and being so poor and so friendless! —

    Pamela 2006

  • And as you have made me fearful by your cautions, my heart at times misgives me.

    Pamela 2006

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