2. 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.
So doth my heart misgive me in these conflicts What may befall him,
to his harm and ours.
Shak.
Such whose consciences misgave them, how ill they had deserved.
Milton.