overprize
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of overprize
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Overprize, ō-vėr-prīz′, v.t. to value too highly: to surpass in value.
From Project Gutenberg
Phœbus, rich father of eternal light, And in his hand a wreath of Heliochrise He brought, to beautify those tresses, Whose train, whose softness, and whose gloss more bright, Apollo's locks did overprize.
From Project Gutenberg
But in laps'd nature rooted deep, Blind error domineers; And on fools' errands, in the dark, Sends out our hopes and fears; Bids us for ever pains deplore, Our pleasures overprize; These oft persuade us to be weak; Those urge us to be wise.
From Project Gutenberg
If it is difficult to overprize the documentary value of his saga of the Garlands and the McClintocks and of their son who turned back on the trail, so is it difficult to overpraise the sincerity and tenderness and beauty with which the chronicle was set down.
From Project Gutenberg
This man cannot look beyond the present, and neither thinks nor cares what shall be, much less suspects what may be; and while he lavishes out his substance in superfluities, thinks he only knows what the world is worth, and that others overprize it.
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