misbileve
Middle English
Noun
misbileve
- misbelief (in all senses)
- suspicion, mistrust
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Chanons Yeman”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio lxvii, verso, column 2:
- for ye ſhal haue no myſbeleue / Ne wronge conceyte of me in your abſence / I wol not ben out of your preſence
- And yet, so that you will have no suspicions / Nor think ill of me in my absence / I will never leave your presence
Derived terms
- → English: misbelief
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