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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
misprize .
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Examples
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Whosoever loves greatly lives greatly; whosoever misprizes Love is dead though living.
The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance Marie Corelli 1889
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He felt drawn towards the pair in a curious way, and he felt as if they belonged to a different age from ours -- as if Sarrasin ought to have been another Götz of Berlichingen, about whom it would have been right to say, 'So much the worse for the age that misprizes thee'; as if she were the mail-clad wife of Count Robert of Paris.
The Dictator Justin McCarthy 1871
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