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Word of the Day for Thursday, October 16, 2008misprize \mis-PRYZ\, transitive verb: 1. To hold in contempt. I hesitate to appear to misprize my native city, but how can the history of dear, sedate old London town possibly compare to Paris for sheer excitement? Or did he misprize such fidelity and harden his heart against so great a love as hers? Alternatively, when disagreements are noticed, they may by chance be overemphasized by those who misprize their significance by failing to assess the pressure exerted by economic and institutional factors as opposed to the purely intellectual. Misprize comes from Middle French mesprisier, from mes-, "amiss, wrong" + prisier, "to appraise." | |||||||||
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