disprize

American  

[dis-prahyz] / dɪsˈpraɪz /

verb (used with object)

disprized, disprizing

1. to hold in small esteem; disdain.

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disprize British  

/ dɪsˈpraɪz /

verb

1. 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

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Example Sentences

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disprize disprized

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 Eugene Manlove Rhodes

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 Dane Coolidge

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

From Impertinent Poems by Edmund Vance Cooke

There’s a big difference between despised love and disprized love, and between a proud man’s contumely and a poor man’s contumely.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021

Ophelia's behaviour to him, in obedience to her father, of which she gives him no explanation, has added 'the pangs of disprized love,' and increased his doubts of woman-kind.

From The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 by George MacDonald

Truly the "pangs of disprized love" seemed hers.

From Little Citizens by Myra Kelly

Then his face darkened with the memory of disprized love.

From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes

Her jealous shame at being disprized and notoriously neglected had given her wanness and bitterness, instead of warmth and sweetness.

From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes

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