underprize

From under- +‎ prize.

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underprize (third-person singular simple present underprizes, present participle underprizing, simple past and past participle underprized)

1. (transitive) To undervalue; to underestimate.
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     […] Yet look, how far / The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow / In underprizing it, so far this shadow / Doth limp behind the substance.

   • 1625, “English Plantations, Discoveries, Acts, and Occurrents, in Virginia and Summer Ilands since the Yeere 1606 till 1624”, in Samuel Purchas, editor, Purchas His Pilgrimes, Part 4 in Five Bookes‎, London: Henry Fetherstone, Chapter 6, Section 4, p. 1756:

     […] euery man ouer-ualuing his owne worth, would be a Commander: euery man vnder prizing anothers value, denied to be commanded.

   • 1631, Fra[ncis] Quarles, “Sect 23. Meditat 23.”, in The Historie of Samson, London: M F for Iohn Marriott, , →OCLC, page 142:

     Teach me to underprize this life, and I / Shall finde my loſſe the eaſier, vvhen I dye; […]

   • 1923, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter 14, in The Lone Wolf Returns‎, New York: Grosset & Dunlap:

     No: it would never do to underprize this proof of good will or to read in Liane’s warning any spirit but one of the most earnest anxiety.

   • 1996, Seamus Heaney, “An Invocation”, in The Spirit Level, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 32:

     I underprized your far-out, blathering genius.