Misprision vs Misprize - What's the difference?
misprision | misprize | Related terms |
(legal) Criminal neglect of duty or wrongful execution of official duties.
Misinterpretation or misunderstanding.
* 1595 , Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, III - 2
* 1984 , (Martin Amis), Money , Vintage 2005, p. 331:
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 […].
Misprision is a related term of misprize.
As nouns the difference between misprision and misprize
is that misprision is (legal) criminal neglect of duty or wrongful execution of official duties while misprize is (obsolete|rare) contempt.As a verb misprize is
to despise or hold in contempt; to undervalue.misprision
English
(wikipedia misprision)Noun
(en noun)- What hast thou done? thou hast mistaken quite
- And laid the love-juice on some true-love's sight:
- Of thy misprision must perforce ensue
- Some true love turn'd and not a false turn'd true.
- they have what men call self-belief and blame you for your misprisions in their dreams, they are conspiracy theorists, benevolent dictators [...].