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underprize en · VERB

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Etymology

From under- + prize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To undervalue; to underestimate.
   • […] Yet look, how far / The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow / In underprizing it, so far this shadow / Doth limp behind the substance. c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
   • […] euery man ouer-ualuing his owne worth, would be a Commander: euery man vnder prizing anothers value, denied to be commanded. 1625, “English Plantations, Discoveries, Acts, and Occurrents, in Virginia and Summer Ilands since the Yeere 1606 till 1624”, in Samuel Purchas, editor, Purchas His Pilgrimes, Part 4 in Five Bookes, London: Henry Fetherstone, Chapter 6, Section 4, p. 1756:
   • I underprized your far-out, blathering genius. 1996, Seamus Heaney, “An Invocation”, in The Spirit Level, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 32:
   • No: it would never do to underprize this proof of good will or to read in Liane’s warning any spirit but one of the most earnest anxiety. 1923, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter 14, in The Lone Wolf Returns, New York: Grosset & Dunlap:
   • Teach me to underprize this life, and I / Shall finde my loſſe the eaſier, vvhen I dye; […] 1631, Fra[ncis] Quarles, “Sect[ion] 23. Meditat[ion] 23.”, in The Historie of Samson, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriott, […], →OCLC, page 142:

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