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Definition of Misgiving
1. Noun. Uneasiness about the fitness of an action.
Generic synonyms: Anxiety
Derivative terms: Misgive, Scruple, Scruple, Scruple, Scrupulous
2. Noun. Painful expectation.
Generic synonyms: Expectation, Outlook, Prospect
Derivative terms: Apprehend, Misgive
3. Noun. Doubt about someone's honesty.
Generic synonyms: Doubt, Doubtfulness, Dubiety, Dubiousness, Incertitude, Uncertainty
Derivative terms: Distrust, Mistrust, Suspect, Suspicious
Definition of Misgiving
1. n. Evil premonition; doubt; distrust.
Definition of Misgiving
1. Noun. doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misgiving
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misgiving
Literary usage of Misgiving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Eugene Allen Gilmore, John Rogers Commons, Helen Laura Sumner (1910)
"(b) Misgiving New York Weekly Tribune, Aug. 14, 1847, p. 5. Having been far away
at the West when this act was passed, and not having been able to lay hands ..."
2. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"But the country could not forget its misgiving about militarism. After all the
second Revolution did end like the first by giving a military tinge to our ..."
3. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1846)
"antagonist theory, no deep misgiving, so long as it only exists elementally in
the mind, and has not come to a regular full belief, precludes a man from ..."
4. The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1863)
"The writer, though also a translator, feels less misgiving than usual in offering
to the reader, in such English as is possible, this spirited and beautiful ..."
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