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Webster 1913 Edition


Misdoubtful

Mis-doubt′ful

,
a
Misgiving; hesitating.
[Obs.]
“Her misdoubtful mind.”
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Misdoubtful

MISDOUBT'FUL

,
Adj.
Misgiving. [Not used.]

Definition 2024


misdoubtful

misdoubtful

English

Adjective

misdoubtful (comparative more misdoubtful, superlative most misdoubtful)

  1. (now rare) Misgiving; doubting, suspicious. [from 16th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.6:
      She gan to cast in her misdoubtfull mynde / A thousand fearees, that love-sicke fancies faine to fynde.