misween

To believe wrongly; to misconceive.

Verb

  1. To believe wrongly; to misconceive.
    • Why then should witlesse man so much misweene That nothing is, but that which he hath seene? - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Prologue”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Origin

From mis- + ween.

Forms

misweens misweening misweened