Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Archaic To disdain or undervalue; scorn.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To undervalue; depreciate; disparage.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive, archaic To depreciate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. rare To depreciate.
Etymologies
- dis- + prize. Compare dispraise. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English disprisen, from Old French desprisier; see dispraise. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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“It gives one such a superior air to disprize with easy scorn this greatest of the Gateways of the World.”
“And disprize them as we might, they are an art form.”
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