misprise
Americanverb (used with object)
Other Word Forms
- mispriser noun
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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