misdeem
verbEtymology Late 14th century, from Middle English misdemen, equivalent to mis- + deem. Cognate with Icelandic misdæma (“to misjudge”).
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To misjudge, to deem wrongly.
- The doubt which ye misdeem, fair love, is vain, / That fondly fear to lose your liberty; / […]1500s, Edmund Spenser, sonnet
- Nor say I this for that I aught misdeem / That Egypt's promis'd succors fail us might.1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xxxviii