disprize

American

[dis-prahyz] / dɪsˈpraɪz /

verb (used with object)

disprized, disprizing

to hold in small esteem; disdain.

disprize British

/ dɪsˈpraɪz /

verb

archaic (tr) to scorn; disdain

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Etymology

Origin of disprize

1425–75; late Middle English disprisen < Anglo-French, Middle French despriser, late variant of despreis ( i ) er to dispraise

Example Sentences

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You disprize your easy one For some one's high and breezy one.

From Impertinent Poems by Cooke, Edmund Vance

It gives one such a superior air to disprize with easy scorn this greatest of the Gateways of the World.

From The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove

And especially from Dixie, the capricious; otherwise, she might win him by a glance and a smile, and then disprize him forever.

From Bat Wing Bowles by Coolidge, Dane

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