Grant vs Misgive - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between grant and misgive

is that grant is to give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition while misgive is (archaic) to give fear or doubt to; to make irresolute.

As a noun grant

is the act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.

grant

English

Alternative forms

* graunt (obsolete)

Verb

(en verb)

To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.

To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.

* 1668 July 3, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:

He Su?pends on the?e Rea?ons, that Thomas Rue'' had granted a general Di?charge to ''Adam Mu?het'', who was his Conjunct, and ''correus debendi'', after the alleadged Service, which Di?charged ''Mu?het'', and con?equently ''Houstoun his Partner.

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To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.

* , Preface ("The Infidel Half Century"), section "In Quest of the First Cause":

The universe exists, said the father: somebody must have made it. If that somebody exists, said I, somebody must have made him. I grant that for the sake of argument, said the Oratorian.

To assent; to consent.

Noun

(en noun)

The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.

The yielding or admission of something in dispute.

The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.

I got a grant from the government to study archeology in Egypt.''

(legal) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.

(informal) An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).

misgive

English

Verb

(archaic) to give fear or doubt to; to make irresolute

* 1591 , , IV.vi

As Henry's late presaging prophecy

Did glad my heart with hope of this young Richmond,

So doth my heart misgive me, in these conflicts,

What may befall him to his harm and ours.

* Milton

Such whose consciences misgave them, how ill they had deserved.

(archaic) To suspect; to dread.

(Shakespeare)

(archaic) To give wrongly; to give or grant amiss.

(Laud)

Derived terms

* misgivings English irregular verbs