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Misconceive vs Misween - What's the difference?

misconceive | misween |

As verbs the difference between misconceive and misween

is that misconceive is to misunderstand while misween is (obsolete) to believe wrongly; to misconceive.

misconceive

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • to misunderstand
  • * 1694, William Congreve, The Double-Dealer
    • Nay, misconceive me not, madam, when I say I have had a gen'rous and a faithful passion, which you had never favoured, but through revenge and policy.

    Derived terms

    * misconception

    misween

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To believe wrongly; to misconceive.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II, prologue:
  • *:Why then should witlesse man so much misweene / That nothing is, but that which he hath seene?

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