Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not valued, as being either below or beyond valuation.
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- adjective Not
prized ;unappreciated , considered of little value.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Britain must first cultivate its own native art — "treasures oft unprized, unknown" — instead of prizing foreign "gems far less rich than those, thus precious, and thus lost"
The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece 2006
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The white hour of life be restored, that passed thee unprized, undescribed!
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One improvement clamors loudly for another, and money was still coming in from the most unexpected sources, so new furniture was bought to take the place of unprized chairs and tables long ago salvaged from the Bolton wreck.
An Alabaster Box Florence Morse Kingsley 1898
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There is no day but the will of God, and he who is of the night cannot be for ever allowed to roam the day; unfelt, unprized, the light must be taken from him, that he may know what the darkness is.
Unspoken Sermons Second Series 1824-1905 1885
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The light silky variety of that staple was entirely unknown, and even after its discovery was for a long time unprized, and its habitat and peculiar characteristics little understood.
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The light silky variety of that staple was entirely unknown, and even after its discovery was for a longtime unprized, and its habitat and peculiar characteristics little understood.
Bricks Without Straw Albion Winegar Tourg��e 1871
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The woman that might have made a man of him, had there been the stuff, passed from him an unprized gift, a thing to which he made Hades welcome.
There & Back George MacDonald 1864
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In the mean time how many, with the legs and the brain of the hare, will think they are gaining it, while they are losing things whose loss will make any prize unprized!
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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Could he not restore its property as the dowry of his unprized daughter! it would be to him but a trifle!
What's Mine's Mine — Complete George MacDonald 1864
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There is no day but the will of God, and he who is of the night cannot be for ever allowed to roam the day; unfelt, unprized, the light must be taken from him, that he may know what the darkness is.
Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. George MacDonald 1864
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