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misdread en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /mɪsˈdɹɛd/

Etymology

From mis- + dread.

Meanings

1. (intransitive, obsolete, transitive) To dread.
   • and the Romanes likewise misdreaded that the Iewes should inuade their campe. 1632, Flavius Josephus, The Famous and Memorable Works of Iosephus, etc, page 711:
   • To auoyd a mischiefe which he misdreaded. 1606, G. Woodcocke, Hist. Iustine, xxxi, 104:
   • Needs me then hope, or doth me need misdread? 1597-8, Bishop Hall, Sat., Defiance to Envie, 25
   • "Of that I misdreaded," said he, "for full well wist I that either he would rescue her or else he would die in the field; and, to say the truth, he had not been a man of worship had he not rescued the Queen, [...]" 1926, Ernest Hamilton, Launcelot: A Romance of the Court of King Arthur, page 278:

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