What does misdread mean?
Misdread means (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To dread..
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/mɪsˈdɹɛd/ · verb
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To dread..
Needs me then hope, or doth me need misdread?
To auoyd a mischiefe which he misdreaded.
and the Romanes likewise misdreaded that the Iewes should inuade their campe.
"Of that I misdreaded," said he, "for full well wist I that either he would rescue her or else he would die in the field; and, to say the truth, he had not been a man of worship had he not rescued the Queen, [...]"
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Misdread means (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To dread..
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Needs me then hope, or doth me need misdread?
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