1582 R. Browne Life & Manners all True Christians sig. Hi^v/2 How doo they make light of his grace and blessinges? They haue their misgeuing from goodnes.

1612 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. I. O.T. iv. 342 His very misse-giuing hardens him the more.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. i. 146 And my misgiuing still Falles shrewdly to the purpose. View more context for this quotation

1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 75 [To] look stedfastly up to this Tribunal, without any manner of Misgiving or Concern.

1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 251 Conscious of her crimes, she feels instead, A cold misgiving, and a killing dread.

1807 W. Wordsworth Ode in Poems II. 155 Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realiz'd. View more context for this quotation

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 185 The bulk of the Scottish nation,..with many misgivings of conscience, attended the ministrations of the Episcopal clergy.

1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World (1884) vii. 230 The misgiving which will creep..over the brightest faith.

1922 W. Gerhardi Futility (1974) iii. iv. 116 At moments I am seized by misgivings.

1951 M. Lavin Single Lady 28 A vague feeling of misgiving came over her, and she began to doubt the wisdom of having begun such a story at all.

1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 4 Feb. 32/1 Piano betrayed the same misgivings that critics are beginning to have about the Potsdammer Platz project.

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) x. f. 130 Her fore misgiuing [1565 foremisgiving] mynd did also make her sad.

1593 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia iii. 269 His mother..with many teares, and misgiuing sighs had suffred him to go with his elder brother Philanax.

1646 P. Bulkley Gospel-covenant ii. 172 With a..misgiving heart, fearing lest our own mouth should judge us.

1711 M. Henry Forgiveness of Sin in Wks. (1857) II. 522 Sinners carry about with them a misgiving conscience.

1815 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone vi. 101 He heard and with misgiving mind.

1859 R. C. Trench Hulsean Lect. 1845–6 (ed. 4) 116 This is the true answer to every misgiving question of a like kind.

1995 T. Clark Like Real People 108 The wrinkled, pockmarked, twisted, misgiving Old geezer-visage whose quick scared eyes caught mine.

1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. ii. xi. 77 A reform in Parliament,..which the younger ones..advocated but fitfully and misgivingly.

1989 K. Miller Authors 118 The new novel has married the pair and moved them on into the mid-Sixties and from the provinces to London, where Patrick works misgivingly in a fashionable publishing-house.