Misprise vs Misprize - What's the difference?
misprise | misprize | Alternative forms |
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 […].