Undervalue vs Misprize - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between undervalue and misprize

is that undervalue is to underestimate, or assign too low a value to while misprize is to despise or hold in contempt; to undervalue.

(obsolete|rare) contempt.

To underestimate, or assign too low a value to.

To have too little regard for.

* Atterbury

In comparison of it I undervalued all ensigns of authority.

* Dryden

I write not this with the least intention to undervalue the other parts of poetry.

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*mesprise *misprise

(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 […].

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(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 […].