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Despise vs Misprize - What's the difference?

despise | misprize |

As verbs the difference between despise and misprize

is that despise is to regard with contempt or scorn while misprize is to despise or hold in contempt; to undervalue.

As a noun misprize is

contempt.

despise

English

Verb

(despis)
  • To regard with contempt or scorn.

    • Synonyms

    * scorn * See also *contempt

    Antonyms

    * honor * respect * revere

    Derived terms

    * despisal * despicable

    Related terms

    * despect * despection

    See also

    * vilipend

    External links

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    misprize

    English

    Alternative forms

    *mesprise *misprise

    Verb

    (mispriz)
  • 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 […].

    • Noun

    (-)
  • (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 […].

    • Related terms

    *misprision