Misgiving

This was quite intolerable; a misgiving was a warning voice from God, which should be attended to as a man valued his soul. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)

I read with some kind of misgiving a statement at the CRTC hearing which says "lack of determination, vigour and purpose in addressing the objectives of Parliament". ❋ Unknown (1974)

The impressions his mind had received while passing the churchyard, now returned upon him with added gloom; a kind of misgiving came over him; and a thousand boding thoughts haunted him like spirits, and hanging, as it were, on his heart, dragged it down farther and farther at every step. ❋ Various (N/A)

At the bottom of all the agitation a wedding sets going in us all there is lying, I think a kind of misgiving, a secret pity for the fate of the poor rose which is picked now and must forthwith wither; and our boisterous jollification is but an awkward barely successful effort at concealing it. ❋ Paul, Herbert (1905)

But, if we take the story in the Acts of the Apostles, there is not the smallest foothold for the fashionable notion, which is entirely due to men's dislike of the supernatural, that there was any kind of misgiving in the young Pharisee, springing from the influence of ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

a misgiving which is strengthened by reflecting on all those to him incomprehensible inferences to which the admission of the argument leads him, and which seem almost to involve contradictions. ❋ Henry Rogers (1841)

My suspicion is he'd have treated the idea of "guidance" being offered to Anton Ferdinand with distinct misgiving. ❋ Unknown (2012)

The latter hesitated in the midst of the cut and looked around with querulous misgiving at the faces of the others. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The one misgiving about this future is that it's somewhat hard to initially believe that, despite their meta-obvious focus in this trilogy's plot and characters, the three heretical technologies are believed to be suppressible. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He exudes brisk, straightforward confidence, without pretense or misgiving. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The trigger mechanism was just one misgiving both sides had about the deal. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In a globalized media community, the wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina brought the reality of sexual violence to living rooms around the world and the genocide in Rwanda filled the world with guilt and misgiving. ❋ Radhika Coomaraswamy (2011)

If you think you know what you're doing as a writer, Odyssey will cure you of that particular misgiving. ❋ Odysseyworkshop (2009)

I looked with misgiving toward the south-west and thought of the six hundred miles of hardship before us — ay, if it were no worse than hardship. ❋ Unknown (2010)

However, both the 'Like a Virgin' and 'Express Yourself' numbers may have more than made up for every misgiving I had about the episode. ❋ Karenhealey (2010)

Any small misgiving felt by Redknapp will lie in the conservatism. ❋ Unknown (2012)