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Definition of Misgave
1. misgive [v] - See also: misgive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misgave
Literary usage of Misgave
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Surely those unarmed and Petitioning People needed not have bin so formidable to
any but to such whose consciences misgave them how ill they had deserv'd of ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"He looked at her, and thought of the house in the High Street, and his heart
misgave him. How could she bear it ? Had she not miscalculated her strength ? ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1907)
"He paid treble toll and took no change, and asked the road to my lady's castle;
and my mind misgave me. It misgave me more when he returned, looking angrily ..."
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