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

If academic distinctions are disprized in America, both in college and out of it, this is amply explained by the fact that they attest a student's diligence rather than his ability.

From An American at Oxford by John Corbin

So the disprized little gifts of God were bumped up the church steps, wheeled up the aisle, and bestowed in a prominent spot before the chancel rail.

From New Faces by Charles F. Neagle

Truly the "pangs of disprized love" seemed hers.

From Little Citizens by Myra Kelly

She wanted to talk to Jim because she felt so disprized and downtrodden that she wanted to see somebody who adored her.

From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes

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