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Definition of Misgives
1. misgive [v] - See also: misgive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misgives
Literary usage of Misgives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable George Canning by John Styles (1830)
"... then my heart misgives me, and I have a dreadful pre'nge of the future.
This burst of eloquence tras not lost upon Mr. Canning ; and after wiping away ..."
2. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, Julian Hawthorne (1883)
"It was one of the days when my mind misgives me whether the pictorial art be not
a humbug, and when the minute accuracy of a fly in a Dutch picture of fruit ..."
3. After Noontide by Margaret Eliot White, Eliza Orne White (1907)
"Out of the body his soul will go into the man knows not what state, and so his
mind misgives him ; while there is not a swallow comes out of its egg-shell ..."
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