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Misgive vs Trackback - What's the difference?

misgive | trackback |

As a verb misgive

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

As a noun trackback is

(uncountable|computing) a method to keep track of links to content, especially blog entries.

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

    trackback

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (software, Internet, blogging) A protocol for a system that allows a blogger to see who has seen the original post and has written another entry concerning it.

    • See also

    * (wikipedia "TrackBack")

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