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misweening

misweening is the present participle and gerund of misween.

Meaning of misween

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

Questions about misweening

What is misweening the present participle and gerund of?
Misweening is the present participle and gerund of misween.

Words near misweening in the dictionary

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

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