misprise
Americanverb (used with object)
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When I found you, helpless lying, And you waived my deep misprise, And swore me, dying, In phantom-guise To wing to me when grieving, And touch away my woe, We kissed, believing .
From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas
At which I did naturally discover the great misprise of those varlets who had taken me for my dear Lord, whom I now damned in my heart for changing of the cloaks!
From Condensed Novels: New Burlesques by Harte, Bret
Beware how you misprise this potent ally, for hers is the art of Giotto and Dante: beware how you misprise this insidious foe, for hers is the art of modern France and of Byron.
From Shelley; an essay by Thompson, Francis
Something in your conduct or the confidence you showed shocked her nicer sense; not your lack of the luxuries she often misprised.
From Initials Only by Green, Anna Katharine
If I responded coldly, it was at the thought of my last interview with poor dear Arthur, and his misprised larynx.
From A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') by Duncan, Sara Jeannette
Frying is indeed the method of cookery most misprised through its abuse.
From Dishes & Beverages of the Old South by McCulloch-Williams, Martha
For if there is one piece of art which is better than nature, 't is Botticelli's so-called "Spring," which, long misprised and now worm-riddled, adds the last magic to the wonderful flower-city.
From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel
You do wrong, I assure you, in misprising these men of the 18th century.
From On The Art of Reading by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Every time that the sad-eyed and modest Edwin Clayhanger glanced at Janet, and included herself in the glance, she fancied that he was unjustly but inevitably misprising herself.
From Hilda Lessways by Bennett, Arnold
He has a masculine judgment and no small degree of wit—though 'tis of a hard intellectual kind; but through misprising his fellow creatures he has come to lack flair.
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Neither do I believe that there are so many instances of unequal yoking as the misprising judgments of men by men and women by women might lead us to imagine.
From Stephen Archer and Other Tales by MacDonald, George
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