misprize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- misprizer noun
Etymology
Origin of misprize
1300–50; Middle English misprise < Middle French mesprisier, equivalent to mes- mis- 1 + prisier to prize 2
Example Sentences
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They misrepresent the U. S. at Oxford and misprize it at home.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has become something of the mode to misprize Galsworthy.
From Time Magazine Archive
The grand discovery they misprize, As, in amaze, they stand around; One prates of gnomes and sorceries, Another of the sable hound.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Francke, Kuno
Yet I would not misprize the cats of Seville, which apparently have their money price.
From Familiar Spanish Travels by Howells, William Dean
People are too apt to misprize this sort of politeness of mere habit; yet, as far as it goes, it is an excellent thing.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
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