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Disprize vs Misprize - What's the difference?

disprize | misprize |

As verbs the difference between disprize and misprize

is that disprize is (archaic) to depreciate while misprize is to despise or hold in contempt; to undervalue.

As a noun misprize is

(obsolete|rare) contempt.

disprize

English

Verb

(dispriz)
  • (archaic) To depreciate.
  • * Cotton, Ode to Lydia
    • Dishevel sweet thy yellow hair, / Whose ray does burnish'd gold disprize .

    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