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misprize en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /mɪsˈpɹʌɪz/ (UK)
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Etymology

From Middle French mespriser (verb), mespris (noun).

Meanings

1. (obsolete, rare, uncountable) Contempt.
   • He ment to make them know their follies prise, Had not those two him instantly desired T'asswage his wrath, and pardon their mesprise […]. 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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misprize en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /mɪsˈpɹʌɪz/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle French mespriser (verb), mespris (noun).

Meanings

1. To despise or hold in contempt; to undervalue.
   • Nature neuer fram'd a womans heart, Of prowder stuffe then that of Beatrice: Disdaine and Scorne ride sparkling in her eyes, Mis-prizing what they looke on […] 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

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