different between misseem vs misdeem

English

Etymology

From mis- +? seem.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m?s?si?m/
• Rhymes: -i?m

Verb

misseem (third-person singular simple present misseems, present participle misseeming, simple past and past participle misseemed)

1. (literary) To be unbecoming to; not to suit. [from 15th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:

     Ne certes, daughter, that same warlike wize, / I weene, would you misseeme; for ye beene tall, / And large of limbe t'atchieve an hard emprize [...].

Anagrams

• mimeses

English

Etymology

Late 14th century, from Middle English misdemen, equivalent to mis- +? deem. Cognate with Icelandic misdæma (“to misjudge”).

Verb

misdeem (third-person singular simple present misdeems, present participle misdeeming, simple past and past participle misdeemed)

1. To misjudge, to deem wrongly.
   • 1500s, Edmund Spenser, sonnet:

     The doubt which ye misdeem, fair love, is vain, / That fondly fear to lose your liberty; / […]

   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xxxviii:

     Nor say I this for that I aught misdeem / That Egypt's promis'd succors fail us might.

References

• misdeem in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.