misprisal rare.
(mɪˈspraɪzəl)
Also 7 -prizal.
[f. misprize v.1 + -al1 5.]
Contempt, disdain, scorn.
| 1620 [J. Pyper] tr. Hist. Astrea vii. 230 The heauens..will accuse me of misprisall [orig. Fr. mécognoissance], if I liue not for you. 1652 Kirkman Clerio & Lozia 129 If the sots raile against the misprizal that I make of it. 1897 M. Corelli in Lady's Realm Mar. 527/2 A marriage-vow sworn in falsification and misprisal of Love. |