misprize

Or mis·prise

[mis-prahyz]

verb (used with object)

misprized, misprizing 

1. to despise; undervalue; slight; scorn.

misprize

/ mɪsˈpraɪz /

verb

1. to fail to appreciate the value of; undervalue or disparage

Other Word Forms

• misprizer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of misprize¹

1300–50; Middle English misprise < Middle French mesprisier, equivalent to mes- mis- ¹ + prisier to prize ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of misprize¹

C15: from Old French mesprisier, from mes- _mis- ¹ + prisier to _prize ²

Example Sentences

When a planet is inhabited only by beings who reject the Lord and misprize His Word, when the angelic spirits have gathered from the four winds, God sends a destroying angel to alter the whole mass of that rebellious world, which, in the vast spaces of the universe, is to Him what an infertile seed is in the natural world.

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Yet she would not speak her thought, lest he should misprize her.

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But she had pictured to herself a sort of Mary Blanchet in trousers, a gentle, old-fashioned, timid person, whom, perhaps, the outer world was apt to misprize, if not even to snub, and whom therefore it became her, Minola Grey, as an enemy and outlaw of the common world, to receive with double consideration.

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It has become something of the mode to misprize Galsworthy.

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They misrepresent the U. S. at Oxford and misprize it at home.

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Related Words

• abhor 
• deride 
• detest 
• disdain 
• eschew 
• hate 
• loathe 
• neglect 
• reject 
• repudiate 
• revile 
• scorn 
• shun 
• snub 
• undervalue