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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

misdeem en · VERB

Etymology

Late 14th century, from Middle English misdemen, equivalent to mis- + deem. Cognate with Icelandic misdæma (“to misjudge”).

Meanings

  1. To misjudge, to deem wrongly.
    • Nor say I this for that I aught misdeem / That Egypt's promis'd succors fail us might. 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xxxviii
    • The doubt which ye misdeem, fair love, is vain, / That fondly fear to lose your liberty; / […] 1500s, Edmund Spenser, sonnet

Forms

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misdeems Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
misdeeming Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
misdeemed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
misdeemed Tense=Past lexicographic