misdoubt

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We put him in charge of a woman, who said she'd take care of him, but I misdoubt her.

From Anne by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

Humph," grunted out Brother Jackson, pursing up his thick lips and folding his fat hands before him; "I misdoubt whether the enemy be not mixed up somehow or other with these manifestations.

From A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor

Aristophanes declares the essence of his teaching to be, Accept the old, contest the strange, misdoubt every man whose work is yet to do, acknowledge the work already done.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

"If they don't take to treat him kinder, I misdoubt me but he'll do something desperate, as the dead-and-gone heir, Rupert, did," she remarked, sitting down near her father.

From Trevlyn Hold by Wood, Mrs. Henry

So she began to misdoubt that this was some one else than she had first thought him to be, wherefore she said, "I pray you, Sir, tell me who you are?"

From The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions by Pyle, Howard