Meanings
adjectivemisdoubtful (comparative more misdoubtful, superlative most misdoubtful)
comparative more misdoubtful · superlative most misdoubtful
- archaicMisgiving; doubting, suspicious.First known use 16th c.
She gan to cast in her misdoubtfull mynde / A thousand fearees, that love-sicke fancies faine to fynde.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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