What's the difference between misgive and mistake?
Misgive
Definition:
(v. t.) To give or grant amiss.
(v. t.) Specifically: To give doubt and apprehension to, instead of confidence and courage; to impart fear to; to make irresolute; -- usually said of the mind or heart, and followed by the objective personal pronoun.
(v. t.) To suspect; to dread.
(v. i.) To give out doubt and apprehension; to be fearful or irresolute.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have always struggled with the quality of my own work but despite my misgivings about the photos I am taking I can't honestly say they would have been any better two years ago.
(2) Despite his misgivings, Griffith-Jones agreed to draft new legislation that sanctioned beatings, as long as the abuse was kept secret.
(3) "Even politicians who are publicly in favour have misgivings," he said.
(4) To document the circumstances and care of patients with schizophrenia who had recently been discharged from local psychiatric inpatient services, and to establish the extent to which misgivings about community care might be justified.
(5) More likely though was that the Foreign Office, which has deep misgivings about the flirtation, would now seek to reassert its control over China policy and cool relations with the world’s second-largest economy.
(6) Since the introduction of the bioptome in 1962, examination of fresh endomyocardial tissue has been undertaken progressively in many centres despite the misgivings of some investigators.
(7) Looking toward the future from the gynecologists' viewpoint, many experience misgivings about performing abortions.
(8) "Despite the misgivings of many in the world, we have demonstrated a level of political maturity that surpassed expectation.
(9) If the black MPs had all nominated Diane, no matter what their misgivings about her, they would have presented themselves as a powerful bloc to be reckoned with.
(10) For many voters, the two political assassinations of 2013, attributed to jihadist radicals, had given rise to deep misgivings, in a country with little previous experience of political violence.
(11) If they had any misgivings, doubts about the timing, the EU decision rid them of these."
(12) But the Lib Dems have to try to win them back, and they have to convince the two out of three who stuck with the party last week, some with many misgivings, that they were right to do so.
(13) After several weeks of trying to find new employment, he accepts, not without misgivings, and with the disapproval of a socialist friend, a position in the Milan office of a British firm which manufactures machines that make artillery shells.
(14) As the dust settles on what politicians insisted was a historic agreement, senior figures from the US, China and the EU welcomed the deal on Sunday – despite misgivings among climate scientists and campaigners who said it did not go far enough.
(15) No one engaged with me in discussing my misgivings and no one else on the board seemed bothered.
(16) I totally understand, particularly those people working in the public sector who have seen changes to their pensions … I totally understand that people like that have misgivings about what’s been going on.” Sheffield Hallam is the one and only non-Labour constituency in South Yorkshire.
(17) Steve Playle, a trading standards officer who has worked with the government on the doorstep marketing side of the deal, has also expressed misgivings about the impact of selling a home with a Green Deal plan attached.
(18) The misgivings of the Bank of England and the Treasury about a currency union are valid: the experience of the eurozone is that a currency union without fiscal and banking union is inherently unstable.
(19) Houghton, who is expected to reiterate the military's misgivings about entering the conflict, is expected to tell ministers the UK could assist US forces with cruise missile strikes launched from submarines, warships and aircraft against targets such as command and control bunkers.
(20) Duncan Smith indicated that the prime minister had told him Merkel and Renzi had shared in private their misgivings about the Luxembourger.
Mistake
Definition:
(v. t.) To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.
(v. t.) To take or choose wrongly.
(v. t.) To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning.
(v. t.) To substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another.
(v. t.) To have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge.
(v. i.) To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error.
(n.) An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct.
(n.) Misconception, error, which when non-negligent may be ground for rescinding a contract, or for refusing to perform it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based upon the analysis of 1015 case records of patients, aged 16-70, with different hip joint pathology types, carried out during 1985-1990, there were revealed mistakes and complications after reconstructive-restorative operations.
(2) But to treat a mistake as an automatic disqualification for advancement – even as heinous a mistake as presiding over a botched operation that resulted in the killing of an innocent man – could be depriving organisations, and the country, of leaders who have been tested and will not make the same mistake again.
(3) It's a mistake to say Etonians are as they are because of their families.
(4) Conservationists have warned that they can affect fish growth and persist in the guts of mussels and fish that mistake them for food.
(5) After trading mistakes, Wawrinka got lucky at 30-30, mishitting a service return and fooling Djokovic.
(6) Masutha said the parole board had made a mistake when they approved Pistorius for early release, but his intervention has been widely criticised by legal experts.
(7) After winning his prize, Malcolm Turnbull must learn from Abbott's mistakes Read more Abbott appointed Warren Mundine to head his hand picked advisory council on Indigenous affairs.
(8) BUSH ON IRAQ TONIGHT: Mr President, if I can move on to the question of Iraq, when we last spoke before the Iraq war, I asked you about Saddam Hussein and you said this, and I quote: "He harbours and develops weapons of mass destruction, make no mistake about it."
(9) I believe Flower when he promises he would not repeat his mistake.
(10) He admitted to "very serious mistakes", highlighting problems with the party's channels of communication.
(11) But Wawrinka, who seemed to be flexing his knee a moment ago, is making more mistakes.
(12) "Don't be discouraged that we have to acknowledge potentially we've made some mistakes.
(13) The most common provoking factor in case of status and series were medication mistakes.
(14) The UN already made a mistake, they broke their own rule.
(15) Make no mistake about who the chief beneficiaries are.
(16) He added that the appearance this week on Libyan television of the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi showed it had been a mistake by the Scottish justice minister to release him on compassionate grounds in 2009.
(17) Other parents are going to have to look into it, because I’ve made a big mistake moving him.
(18) Mistakes in maternity care account for a third of the £1bn a year the NHS has to spend settling medical negligence claims.
(19) These figures cast doubt on health secretary Jeremy Hunt's claim that the rise in A&E attendances was due to Labour's "historic mistake" in 2004 to let GPs no longer take responsibility for providing out-of-hours care.
(20) We make mistakes, and fall victim to the temptations of pride, and power, and sometimes evil.