Definition of "misgiving" []

• A feeling of doubt, distrust, or apprehension. See Synonyms at qualm. (noun)

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• "This was quite intolerable; a misgiving was a warning voice from God, which should be attended to as a man valued his soul."
• "I read with some kind of misgiving a statement at the CRTC hearing which says "lack of determination, vigour and purpose in addressing the objectives of Parliament"."
• "The impressions his mind had received while passing the churchyard, now returned upon him with added gloom; a kind of misgiving came over him; and a thousand boding thoughts haunted him like spirits, and hanging, as it were, on his heart, dragged it down farther and farther at every step."