Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To disdain or undervalue; scorn.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To undervalue; depreciate; disparage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To depreciate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, archaic To
depreciate .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English disprisen, from Old French desprisier; see dispraise.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
dis- + prize. Compare dispraise.
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Examples
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It gives one such a superior air to disprize with easy scorn this greatest of the Gateways of the World.
The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901
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And disprize them as we might, they are an art form.
Boston Globe -- Ideas section James Parker 2010
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