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English
Etymology
From mis- + think.
Pronunciation
Verb
misthink (third-person singular simple present misthinks, present participle misthinking, simple past and past participle misthought)
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To think wrongly or badly (of).
1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:Adam misthought of her.
c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought
For things that others do, and when we fall
We answer others’ merits in our name,
Are therefore to be pitied.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To have sinful thoughts.