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English
Etymology
From dis- + prize. Doublet of dispraise.
Verb
disprize (third-person singular simple present disprizes, present participle disprizing, simple past and past participle disprized)
- (transitive, archaic) To depreciate.
a. 1687, Charles Cotton, Ode to Lydia:Dishevel sweet thy yellow hair, / Whose ray does burnish'd gold disprize.