"misbeholden" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "more misbeholden",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most misbeholden",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1599, Thomas Heywood (attributed - it was published anonymously), King Edward IV, part 2",
          "text": "We show thee not one discontented look, Nor render him one misbeholden word ; But his defiance and his dare to war, We swallow with the supple oil of peace ; Which, gentle herald, if thou canst procure, A thousand crowns shall justly guerdon thee.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1798, Ebenezer Erskine, The Whole Works of the Late Rev. Mr. Ebenezer Erskine, Minister of Gospel at Stirling",
          "text": "If the Son of God had taken upon him the nature of angels, and passed by the seed of Abraham ; if he had been their Redeemer, as he is their avenger, would ever any of them have spoken a misbeholden word of him, or disparaged his glory ?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1869, Elijah Kellogg, Lion Ben of Elm Island, page 65",
          "text": "Ben isn't so good-looking as some young men, nor rich in this world's goods ; but he has good learning and good manners : he is of a good family ; can do more work than any three young men in town ; and for all he is such a giant, never gives a misbeholden word to any one.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, United States. Naval History Division, William Bell Clark, William James Morgan, Naval Documents of the American Revolution - Volume 9, page 384",
          "text": "Pleasant weather, but we are kept in all day as a punishment for a misbeholden word spoken to the sentry on guard.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Disobliging; offensive or unkind."
      ],
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          "disobliging"
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          "offensive",
          "offensive"
        ],
        [
          "unkind",
          "unkind"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Disobliging; offensive or unkind."
      ],
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        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "misbeholden"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more misbeholden",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most misbeholden",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1599, Thomas Heywood (attributed - it was published anonymously), King Edward IV, part 2",
          "text": "We show thee not one discontented look, Nor render him one misbeholden word ; But his defiance and his dare to war, We swallow with the supple oil of peace ; Which, gentle herald, if thou canst procure, A thousand crowns shall justly guerdon thee.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1798, Ebenezer Erskine, The Whole Works of the Late Rev. Mr. Ebenezer Erskine, Minister of Gospel at Stirling",
          "text": "If the Son of God had taken upon him the nature of angels, and passed by the seed of Abraham ; if he had been their Redeemer, as he is their avenger, would ever any of them have spoken a misbeholden word of him, or disparaged his glory ?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1869, Elijah Kellogg, Lion Ben of Elm Island, page 65",
          "text": "Ben isn't so good-looking as some young men, nor rich in this world's goods ; but he has good learning and good manners : he is of a good family ; can do more work than any three young men in town ; and for all he is such a giant, never gives a misbeholden word to any one.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, United States. Naval History Division, William Bell Clark, William James Morgan, Naval Documents of the American Revolution - Volume 9, page 384",
          "text": "Pleasant weather, but we are kept in all day as a punishment for a misbeholden word spoken to the sentry on guard.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Disobliging; offensive or unkind."
      ],
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        [
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          "disobliging"
        ],
        [
          "offensive",
          "offensive"
        ],
        [
          "unkind",
          "unkind"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Disobliging; offensive or unkind."
      ],
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        "archaic"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "misbeholden"
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