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Middle English
Etymology
From mys- + bileve.
Noun
misbileve
- misbelief (in all senses)
- suspicion, mistrust
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Chanons Yeman”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
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
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