misween

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ ween.

Verb

misween (third-person singular simple present misweens, present participle misweening, simple past and past participle misweened)

  1. (obsolete) To believe wrongly; to misconceive.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II, prologue:
      Why then should witlesse man so much misweene / That nothing is, but that which he hath seene?

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