Misgives vs Mislives - What's the difference?
misgives | mislives |
As verbs the difference between misgives and mislives is that misgives is ( misgive) while mislives is ( mislive).
misgives English
Verb
(head)
(misgive)
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)
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mislives English
Verb
(head)
(mislive)
mislive English
Verb
(misliv)
To lead a wrong or vicious life; live wrongly.
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