misween

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verb

To believe wrongly; to misconceive.

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Meanings

verbmisween (third-person singular simple present misweens, present participle misweening, simple past and past participle misweened)

present singular third person misweens · participle present misweening · participle past misweened · past misweened

  1. obsoleteTo believe wrongly; to misconceive.

    Why then should witlesse man so much misweene That nothing is, but that which he hath seene?

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Prologue”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

From mis- + ween.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

seminew
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “misween,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misween.

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