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misknow

[ mis-noh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

, mis·knew, mis·known, mis·know·ing.

Origin of misknow¹

First recorded in 1250–1300, misknow is from the Middle English word misknowen. See mis- ¹, know ¹

It would be greatly to misknow Gibbon to suppose that his studies at Lausanne were restricted to the learned languages.

Why should we misknow one another, fight not against the enemy but against ourselves, from mere difference of uniform?

He also scolds Bacon for being afraid that Buckingham's height of fortune might make him "misknow himself."

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