misˈprizing, vbl. n.
[f. misprize v.1 + -ing1.]
= misprision2.
| 1485 Caxton Chas. Gt. 132 The mysprysyng that guy had doon in hys presence. 1539 Cromwell in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) II. 205 For mesprising and avoyding of his abuses. 1601 Shakes. All's Well iii. ii. 33 By the misprising of a Maide too vertuous For the contempt of Empire. 1648 W. Browne Polexander iii. v. 145 Our misprising of men might make you doe the same to us. 1875 D. Greenwell Liber Human. 106 What can be a more ignoble misprizing of man's true dignity, than to intimate..that man has no natural thirst after righteousness? |