misgiving

Etymology

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

noun

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. 1846-1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
   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. 1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
   Having got its Act, the M.B.M. & M.J.R. apparently had misgivings about the route, in view of the very heavy engineering works that would be necessary, and on November 9, 1846, the company gave notice of a further bill for a deviated line, which was passed into law on July 22, 1847. 1960 March, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 149