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misprize
mis·prize
/
mɪsˈpraɪz
/
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[
mis-
prahyz
]
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verb (used with object),
mis·prized,
mis·priz·ing.
to despise; undervalue; slight; scorn.
Also,
misprise
.
Origin:
1300–50;
Middle English
misprise
<
Middle French
mesprisier,
equivalent to
mes-
mis-
1
+
prisier
to
prize
2
Related forms
mis·priz·er,
noun
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World English Dictionary
misprize
or
misprise
(mɪsˈpraɪz)
—
vb
to fail to appreciate the value of; undervalue or disparage
[C15: from Old French
mesprisier,
from
mes-
mis-
1
+
prisier
to
prize
²]
misprise
or
misprise
—
vb
[C15: from Old French
mesprisier,
from
mes-
mis-
1
+
prisier
to
prize
²]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Misprize
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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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