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misween

misween verb: to believe wrongly; to misconceive.

Verb

misween (third-person singular simple present misweens, present participle misweening, simple past and past participle misweened)

  1. (obsolete) To believe wrongly; to misconceive.
    • Why then should witlesse man so much misweene
      That nothing is, but that which he hath seene?1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Prologue”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of misween

third-person singular presentmisweens
present participlemisweening
past participlemisweened
pastmisweened

Origin of misween

From mis- + ween.

Questions about misween

What does misween mean?
Misween means to believe wrongly; to misconceive.
What part of speech is misween?
Misween is a verb.
What is the past tense of misween?
The past tense of misween is misweened.

Words near misween in the dictionary

  1. misweaving
  2. miswed
  3. miswedded
  4. miswedding
  5. misweds
  6. misween
  7. misweened
  8. misweening
  9. misweens
  10. misweigh
  11. misweighed

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