Misgave vs Misgive - What's the difference?
misgave | misgive |
(archaic) to give fear or doubt to; to make irresolute
* 1591 , , IV.vi
* Milton
(archaic) To suspect; to dread.
(archaic) To give wrongly; to give or grant amiss.
As verbs the difference between misgave and misgive
is that misgave is simple past of misgive while misgive is to give fear or doubt to; to make irresolute.misgive
English
Verb
- 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.
- Such whose consciences misgave them, how ill they had deserved.
- (Shakespeare)
- (Laud)