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单词 misprize
释义

Definition of misprize in English:

misprize

verb mɪsˈprʌɪzmɪsˈpraɪz
[with object]rare
  • Fail to appreciate the value of (something); undervalue.

    〈罕〉轻视;低估

    their cultures have been misprized
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I am not so much patronizing the other side, rather I am misprizing ours.
    • We must not see it as any misprizing of creation, as if any work of God could be evil.
    • The fact that in these two thousand years it was distorted in many points, misprized and misunderstood is a topic of a different chapter.
    • But if one assumes any of the natural roles, misprizing externals is no longer an option.
    • It was masked as God's speaking directly to the human spirit, but it included misprizing of the corporeal in the way that they went about it.
    Synonyms
    belittle, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, downgrade, play down, deflate, trivialize, minimize, make light of, treat lightly, undervalue, underrate, underestimate

Origin

Late 15th century: from Old French mesprisier, from mes- 'wrongly' + prisier 'estimate the value of'.

Rhymes

advise, apprise, apprize, arise, assize, capsize, chastise, comprise, demise, despise, devise, downsize, excise, flies, guise, incise, low-rise, outsize, previse, prise, prize, remise, revise, rise, size, surmise, surprise, uprise, wise

Definition of misprize in US English:

misprize

verbmɪsˈpraɪzmisˈprīz
[with object]rare
  • Fail to appreciate the value of (something); undervalue.

    〈罕〉轻视;低估

    their cultures have been misprized
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I am not so much patronizing the other side, rather I am misprizing ours.
    • It was masked as God's speaking directly to the human spirit, but it included misprizing of the corporeal in the way that they went about it.
    • The fact that in these two thousand years it was distorted in many points, misprized and misunderstood is a topic of a different chapter.
    • But if one assumes any of the natural roles, misprizing externals is no longer an option.
    • We must not see it as any misprizing of creation, as if any work of God could be evil.
    Synonyms
    belittle, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, downgrade, play down, deflate, trivialize, minimize, make light of, treat lightly, undervalue, underrate, underestimate

Origin

Late 15th century: from Old French mesprisier, from mes- ‘wrongly’ + prisier ‘estimate the value of’.

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