Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To praise falsely or injudiciously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To praise amiss.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is possible to overpraise Balzac in parts or to mispraise him as a whole.
The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Neverthelesse I finding him once of a good humour and on the point of honnour encourages his son to break the kettle and take the hattchett and to be gon to the forraigne nations, and that was of courage and of great renowne to see the father of one parte and the son of another part, & that he should not mispraise if he should seperat from him, but that it was the quickest way to make the world tremble, & by that means have liberty everywhere by vanquishing the mortall enemy of his nation; uppon this I venture to aske him what I was.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
qroqqa commented on the word mispraise
I watched them as they passed slowly out of sight up the marble staircase which I had mispraised.
—Max Beerbohm, 'Hilary Maltby and Stephen Braxton'
August 3, 2009