misgiving

noun

Etymology: From misgive, from mis- + give, from Middle English give (“suggest, given”). Compare given and what gives.

1. Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread

   “He could think of her being there, without a lurking misgiving that it would have been better if she had not come.”

   “In the night, or the gloomy chambers of the day, fears and misgivings wax strong, but out in the sunlight there is, for a time, cessation even of the terror of death.”