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misdread

verb
/mɪsˈdɹɛd/

Etymology

From mis- + dread.

  1. inherited from *andarādan✻
  2. inherited from drǣdan — “to fear, dread”
  3. inherited from dreden
  4. prefixed as misdread — “mis + dread”

Definitions

  1. To dread.

    • Needs me then hope, or doth me need misdread?
    • To auoyd a mischiefe which he misdreaded.
    • and the Romanes likewise misdreaded that the Iewes should inuade their campe.

The neighborhood

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