The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misdoubt \Mis*doubt"\, v. t. & i. To be suspicious of; to have suspicion. [Obs.]
I do not misdoubt my wife.
--Shak.
Misdoubt \Mis*doubt"\, n.
Suspicion. [Obs.]
Irresolution; hesitation. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context now archaic regional English) To doubt the existence or reality of. 2 (context now archaic regional English) To have suspicions about.
Usage examples of "misdoubt".
Thiodolf swiftly to the man behind him who carried the war-horn, and every man handled his weapons: but that man understood, and set the little end to his mouth, and loud roared the horn of the Markmen, and neither friend nor foe misdoubted the tale thereof.
The cratur scarce looks like a human being, and I misdoubt me whether you had better let him in.
Methinks he has the better of it with Master Spikeman, though I misdoubt if he considers the score as settled.
I suggested, for, to tell the truth, I misdoubted me of this chill, and knew that he had eaten nothing but what was quite wholesome.
Somehow I misdoubted me of that stretch of gloom, for although, of course, I could see nothing there, my quick ear caught the sound of movements.
Middleton misdoubted the future as well as the past of the man who did not, in becoming gravity, exult to dine.
Perhaps Squire Hall was the only one in Lewes Hundred who misdoubted that Hiram was half-witted.
For a little time it seemed to Mainwaring that he should give it all up, but this was at once so impracticable and so quixotic that he presently abandoned it, and in time his qualms and misdoubts faded away and he settled himself down to enjoy that which had come to him through his marriage.
That was to weet the Porter of the place,Vnto whose trust the charge thereof was lent:His name was Doubt, that had a double face,Th'one forward looking, th'other backeward bent,Therein resembling Ianus auncient,Which hath in charge the ingate of the yeare:And euermore his eyes about him went,As if some proued perill he did feare,Or did misdoubt some ill, whose cause did not appeare.
I misdoubt that that king's penitence after the fact made the swords of his knights hurt any the less.
The prospect thus afforded of their son's deliverance from death reassured the gentleman and his lady, albeit they were troubled, misdoubting it must be by his marriage with Jeannette.
Ah, well, it is probably better for the lads to have to do all the scut work in the ship plus shampoos and pedicures for their wives than it would be for the boys to sell Laz and Lor in the slave marts of Iskander, as I misdoubt they would have done had their own thieving efforts succeeded.