Disprize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To depreciate. archaic, transitive

    "Dishevel sweet thy yellow hair, / Whose ray does burnish'd gold disprize."

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be abovecontemnderidedespisedisdaindisparage

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"Dishevel sweet thy yellow hair, / Whose ray does burnish'd gold disprize."

Etymology

From dis- + prize. Doublet of dispraise.

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