misknow

Verb

misknow (third-person singular simple present misknows, present participle misknowing, simple past misknew, past participle misknown)

1. to misunderstand
   • As to the time when he fell in it, he saith it was in time of peace, aftr he was delivered from the hands of Sennacherib, and when he was at ease in great wealth and abundance; and, as he himself confesseth, when he was beginning to misknow God, and to abuse the great benefit of his delivery, at...1841, The Wodrow Society, chapter 4, in The Sermons and Life of Mr Robert Bruce, page 261
   • Whatever real excellence he might misknow, you had but to let it stand before him, soliciting new examination from him: none surer than he to recognize it at last, and to pay it all his dues, with the arrears and interest on them.1884, Thomas Carlyle, The life of John Sterling. Latter-day pamphlets, page 122