Word Meanings - MISPRIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To slight or undervalue. O, for those vanished hours, so much misprized! Hillhouse. I do not blame them, madam, nor misprize. Mrs. Browning. (more info) pref. amiss, wrong (L. minus less + LL. pretium price. See price,

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• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• MINUS
  Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity. Minus sign , the sign denoting minus, or less, prefixed to negative quantities, or quantities to be subtracted. See Negative sign, under Negative.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• PRICE
  to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf. Appreciate, Depreciate, Interpret, 1. The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale;
• WRONGOUS
  Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
• WRONG
  1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure. He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul. Prov. viii. 36. 2. To impute evil to unjustly;
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• AMISSIBILITY
  The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost. Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam.
• BLAME
  LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. to speak ill to slander, to blaspheme, fr. evil speaking, perh, for ; injury + a saying, fr. to 1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. We have none to blame but ourselves.
• PRICEITE
  A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon.
• UNDERVALUE
  1. To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate. 2. To esteem lightly; to treat as of little worth; to hold in mean estimation; to despise. In comparison of it I undervalued all ensigns of authority. Atterbury. I write not this
• WRONGLESS
  Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney.
• BLAMER
  One who blames. Wyclif.
• BROWNIE
  An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
• AMISSION
  Deprivation; loss. Sir T. Browne.
• SLIGHT
  1. To overthrow; to demolish. Clarendon. 2. To make even or level. Hexham. 3. To throw heedlessly. The rogue slighted me into the river. Shak.
• HOURS
  Goddess of the seasons, or of the hours of the day. Lo! where the rosy-blosomed Hours, Fair Venus' train, appear. Gray.
• PRICELESS
  1. Too valuable to admit of being appraised; of inestimable worth; invaluable. 2. Of no value; worthless. J. Barlow.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• TRIPMADAM
  See PRICKMADAM
• EXTRAMISSION
  A sending out; emission. Sir T. Browne.
• DISBLAME
  To clear from blame. Chaucer.