英和和英

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /mɪsˈdaʊt/

動詞

misdoubt (三人称単数 現在形 misdoubts, 現在分詞 misdoubting, 過去形および過去分詞形 misdoubted)

1. (archaic, regional) To doubt the existence or reality of.
   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], OCLC 879551664:

     And though all the windes of doctrin were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licencing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength.

   • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], OCLC 855945:

     ‘Ay!’ he said. ‘I don't misdoubt it. —But twenty guineas for a bit of a paintin' as he knocked off in an hour or two—!’

     Penguin 2006, p. 296

2. (archaic, regional) To have suspicions about.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The Merry VViues of VVindsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:

     I do not misdoubt my wife, but I would be loath to turn them together

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 28:

     "I misdoubt me much that he is a spy!" whispered one of the elder cavaliers.