misdoubt

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   archaic: to suspect or doubt; to form a mistaken suspicion about

   For a moment, the prisoner misdoubted his visitor to be an apparition.

2. 2
   verb

   To doubt the existence or reality of.

   And though all the windes of doctrin were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licencing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength.

3. 3
   verb

   To have suspicions about.

   I do not misdoubt my wife, but I would be loath to turn them together

From mis- + doubt.

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