misknow
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misknow (third-person singular simple present misknows, present participle misknowing, simple past misknew, past participle misknown)
- to misunderstand
- 1841, The Wodrow Society, chapter 4, in The Sermons and Life of Mr Robert Bruce, page 261:
- As to the time when he fell in it, he saith it was in time of peace, aftr he was delivered from the hands of Sennacherib, and when he was at ease in great 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 God beginneth to pull his ear, and he casteth him out of the hands of a fearful war into the hands of a terrible pest.
- 1884, Thomas Carlyle, The life of John Sterling. Latter-day pamphlets, page 122:
- Whatever real excellence he might misknow, you had but to let it stand before him, soliciting new examination from him: none surer than he to recognize it at last, and to pay it all his dues, with the arrears and interest on them.
- 1885, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poetical Works - Volume 2, page 298:
- Steadfast friend, Who never didst my heart or life misknow, Nor either's faults too keenly apprehend,How can I wonder when I see thee go To join the Dead found faithful to the end?
- 1899 September, R. Vashon Rogers, “Scotch Marriages”, in Horace W. Fuller, editor, The Green Bag, volume 11, number 9, page 427:
- The previous year a Perth session considering that those who desire their banns called "are almost altogether ignorant and misknow the causes why they should marry,” ordered all to appear before the reader to be instructed in the true knowledge of the causes of matrimony.