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  • verb Present participle of misdoubt.

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Examples

  • At this I was alarmed, misdoubting me that he had commanded to seize upon us, and said, ‘Verily we are Allah’s and unto Him shall we return!

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I hae been misdoubting your cousin Rashleigh since ever he saw that he wasna to get Die Vernon for his marrow, and I think he took grudge at his

    Rob Roy 2005

  • So far have I been misdoubting the dean — whom I have long known to be in all things a true and honest gentleman — that I postponed the elaborated result of my own memory to his word.

    The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

  • Neverthelesse, having so solemnly ingaged your faith to me, and no way misdoubting your faithfull secrecy, I shall instruct you in some meanes to be observed; and it appeareth plainly to me, that being furnished with such plenty of Bookes, as you are, and other rich endowments, as you have before rehersed, you cannot but attaine to the full period of your longing desire.

    The Decameron 2004

  • So deerely did Credulano love the childe, that hee verily beleeved, what his Wife had saide, never misdoubting any other treachery: and, lifting up his eyes, with a vehement sigh, said.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Mr Boffin stared here, and stared there, as misdoubting that he must be in some sort of fit.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • ‘Then go, and do it thyself, my son,’ mother replied with a mournful smile, misdoubting what the end might be.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • The citizens, at the first, seemed to be inriched: howbeit afterward, (no man misdoubting any such calamitie) goods ill gotten were worse spent.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • At night we came neere to the Ram-head (the next Cape Westwards from Plimouth sound) but we were afraid to double it in the night, misdoubting the scantnesse of the winde.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • But Master Foster misdoubting some danger secretly gaue speech that he was doubtfull of these men what their intent was; neuerthelesse he sayd nothing, nor seemed in any outward wise to mistrust them at all.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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