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Today's Word "misprize"

To undervalue on

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misprize \mis-PRYZ\ (transitive verb) - 1 : To hold in contempt. 2 : To undervalue.

"What was it that enabled him, short of being a monster with visibly cloven feet and exhaling brimstone, to misprize so cruelly a nature like his wife's..." -- Henry James, 'Madame de Mauves'

 

Misprize comes from Middle French mesprisier, from mes-, "amiss, wrong" + prisier, "to appraise."


 

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