misween
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misween (third-person singular simple present misweens, present participle misweening, simple past and past participle misweened)
- (obsolete) To believe wrongly; to misconceive.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Prologue”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Why then should witlesse man so much misweene / That nothing is, but that which he hath seene?