Contempt vs Misprize - What's the difference?
contempt | misprize |
(uncountable) The state of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain.
* , chapter=13
, title= The state of being despised or dishonored; disgrace.
(legal) Open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law or legislative body.
To despise or hold in contempt; to undervalue.
*c. 1599 , (William Shakespeare), , First Folio 1621, III.1:
*: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 […].
(obsolete, rare) Contempt.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.9:
*:He ment to make them know their follies prise, / Had not those two him instantly desired / T'asswage his wrath, and pardon their mesprise […].
As nouns the difference between contempt and misprize
is that contempt is (uncountable) the state of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain while misprize is (obsolete|rare) contempt.As a verb misprize is
to despise or hold in contempt; to undervalue.contempt
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(wikipedia contempt)Alternative forms
* (obsolete) * (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.}}