Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To despise.
- v. To undervalue.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Mistake; misconception; error; blunder.
- To mistake; misconstrue.
- To slight or undervalue; disparage; despise.
- n. Contempt; scorn.
Wiktionary
- v. To despise or hold in contempt
- v. To undervalue
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To slight or undervalue.
Examples
“The only word that's out of place is "misprize," meaning "to undervalue.”
“Yet I would not misprize the cats of Seville, which apparently have their money price.”
“Let everything that we say, my fellow-countrymen, everything that we henceforth plan and accomplish, ring true to this response till the majesty and might of our concerted power shall fill the thought and utterly defeat the force of those who flout and misprize what we honor and hold dear.”
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America
“What was it that enabled him, short of being a monster with visibly cloven feet and exhaling brimstone, to misprize so cruelly a nature like his wife's and to walk about the world with such a handsome invincible grin?”
“His verse seems to me not poetry, but the materials of poetry, like one's emotions; yet I would not misprize it, and I am glad to own that I have had moments of great pleasure in it.”
My First Visit to New England (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
“Which word doesn't belong? apprehend comprehend misprision misprize prison surprise”
“If you’ll check the second entry for misprision in the Oxford English Dictionary, you’ll find a derivation, not from the French mesprendre, but from the English misprize.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘misprize’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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My First Wordnik List
Just a list to get me started on Wordnik! :)
prolegomenon, hexakosioihexekon..., abderian, zenzizenzizenzic, fardel, runagate, misprize, orison, abecedaria, gemynd, oxter, microfortnight
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lagniappe
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
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Critischism
Divisive devices; emissary of Momus.
peevology, pessimize, philippic, philopolemic, billingsgate, charientism, criticaster, ludification, flyting, miserabilism, misprize, admonish and 145 more...
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A Serving of Random Palavery
This is an eclectic and somewhat random list of words that catch and hold my attention. They may be archaic or disused, dialectal, jargon words from my fields of academic speciality (linguistics, ...
scraffle, infelicitous, misprize, defrock, caitiff, gimcrack, innerve, abjure, cyberchondriac, indurate, hexagynous, pistils and 146 more...
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Dictionary.com Words of the Days of 2004
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As it turns out, WotD really enjoys repeating itself. Though mildly infuriating it was, I've added the fi...buss, roue, abecedarian, crabwise, glabrous, tarradiddle, irrupt, agrestic, cap-a-pie, fetor, olla podrida, primogeniture and 31 more...
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chained_bear Also root of misprision, a very cool word. Dec 30, 2008
hernesheir v.t.
to slight or undervalue.
"O for those vanished hours, so much misprized!" --Hilhouse. Dec 30, 2008
whichbe 1) to hold in contempt: despise
2) undervalue May 12, 2008