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Dispraised vs Disprised - What's the difference?

dispraised | disprised |

As a verb dispraised

is past tense of dispraise.

As an adjective disprised is

alternative form of disprized.

dispraised

English

Verb

(head)
  • (dispraise)

    • dispraise

    English

    Verb

  • To notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage, to criticize.
  • *1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XIII:
  • *:They spake agaynst it, and dispraysed it, raylinge on it.
  • *1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
  • *:Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all.
  • *1992 , (Hilary Mantel), A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 157:
  • *:He became familiar with that habit of mind which dispraises what it most envies and admires: with that habit of mind which desires only what it cannot have.

    • disprised

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)