Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Misgiving; mistrusting; suspicious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete Misgiving; hesitating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
misgiving ;hesitating
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Examples
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I'm no 'gaun to burke ye the nicht; but I canna sleep; I'm sair misdoubtful o' the thing.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847
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So saying, he let him pass, and Calandrino fared on, all misdoubtful, albeit he felt no whit ailing; but Buffalmacco, who was not far off, seeing him quit of Nello, made for him and saluting him, enquired if aught ailed him.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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Meanwhile, Biancofiore, finding that Salabaetto had left Palermo, began to marvel and wax misdoubtful and after having awaited him good two months, seeing that he came not, she caused the broker force open the magazines.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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