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Dispraises vs Mispraises - What's the difference?

dispraises | mispraises |

As verbs the difference between dispraises and mispraises

is that dispraises is third-person singular of dispraise while mispraises is third-person singular of mispraise.

dispraises

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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.

    • mispraises

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    Verb

    (head)
  • (mispraise)

    • mispraise

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    Verb

    (misprais)
  • (rare) To praise falsely, injudiciously, or without good reason.Oxford English Dictionary , 3rd ed., 2002.
  • * 1623 , , The sermons of John Donne , Sermon 12 (Google preview):
    • [T]hough I spend my nights, and dayes, and thoughts, and spirits, and words, and preaching, and writing, upon Princes, and Judges, and Magistrates . . . I have not paid a farthing of my debt to God; I have not praised him, but I have praised them, till not only my selfe, but even they, whom I have so mispraised , are the worse in the sight of God, for my over-praising.
  • * 1845 , Morgan Rattler, "Touching Antony the Triumvir and Cicero the Orator," Fraser's Magazine (September), p. 326 (Google preview):
    • We look upon it not so much as a strangely overpraised, but as a mispraised composition. It is a torrent of abuse.
  • * 2010 , Paul F. O'Rourke (quoting ), Offerings to the Discerning Eye , Sue D'Auria (ed.), ISBN 9789004178748, p. 247 n.25 (Google preview):
    • Anaximander's interest in cosmogony has been vastly overestimated, and his achievements consistently mispraised .
  • (archaic) To slander, blame, or disparage.Oxford English Dictionary , 3rd ed., 2002.
  • * 1949 , , Matthew Arnold , ISBN 9780049280182, p. 106 (Google preview):
    • On hearing the Duke of Wellington mispraised he defends him, in a sonnet.

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