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Definition of Misknow
1. v. t. To have a mistaken notion of or about.
Definition of Misknow
1. Verb. to misunderstand ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misknow
1. to fail to understand or recognize [v -KNEW, -KNOWN, -KNOWING, -KNOWS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misknow
Literary usage of Misknow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sermons by Robert Bruce, Robert Wodrow, William Cunningham (1843)
"wealth and abundance; and, as he himself confesseth, when he was beginning to
misknow God, and to abuse the great benefit of his delivery, at that same time ..."
2. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1918)
"All that it can do directly is to know other things, misknow or ignore them, and
to find that they interest it, ..."
3. Gibbon by James Cotter Morison (1879)
"It would be greatly to misknow Gibbon to suppose that his studies at Lausanne
were restricted to the learned languages. He obtained something more than an ..."
4. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From by John Campbell Campbell (1857)
"... we know not how to interpret this in plain English, otherwise than that vou
were afraid that the height of his fortune might make him misknow himself. ..."
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