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語源

From Middle French mespriser (verb), mespris (noun).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /mɪsˈpɹʌɪz/

動詞

misprize (三人称単数 現在形 misprizes, 現在分詞 misprizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 misprized)

1. To despise or hold in contempt; to undervalue. [from 15th c.]
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:

     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 […].

名詞

misprize (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare) Contempt. [16th–19th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book IV, canto 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 […] .