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of one's mind or heart: to fill one with doubt, apprehension, or foreboding
My mind misgives me that the apparently simple plan will end badly.
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From Middle English misgiven, formed from mis- and give. In the surviving literary construction 'my heart or mind misgives me,' give carries an older sense of suggesting or prompting a fearful expectation.