[每日] misprize (v) 輕視
Word of the Day (Friday September 19, 2008)
misprize \mis-PRYZ\, transitive verb:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/7b4Kr
1. To hold in contempt.
2. To undervalue.
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?
-- Alistair Horne, Seven Ages of Paris
Or did he misprize such fidelity and harden his heart against so
great a love as hers?
-- Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, translated by Guido Waldman
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.
-- Ellen Handler Spitz, "Warrant for trespass/ permission to
peer", The Art Bulletin, December 1, 1995
Misprize comes from Middle French mesprisier, from mes-, "amiss,
wrong" + prisier, "to appraise."
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