Definitions

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of disprize.
  • adjective Undervalued, disparaged.

Etymologies

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From disprize +‎ -ed.

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Examples

  • The popular college remedy for disprized love had always been an instantaneous mingling of conflicting alcohols -- calling a large policeman a big blue boob seemed to produce the same desired result of bringing one to one's senses by first taking one completely out of them without the revolving stomach and fuzzed mind of the first instance.

    Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920

  • Her jealous shame at being disprized and notoriously neglected had given her wanness and bitterness, instead of warmth and sweetness.

    We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

  • Then his face darkened with the memory of disprized love.

    We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

  • Jim Dyckman understood a woman for once, and in a gush of pity for her and of resentment for her disprized preciousness caught at her to embrace her.

    We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

  • She wanted to talk to Jim because she felt so disprized and downtrodden that she wanted to see somebody who adored her.

    We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

  • It had long been a fashionable thing: the disprized lover murders the disprizing lover and then executes the murderer.

    We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

  • So the disprized little gifts of God were bumped up the church steps, wheeled up the aisle, and bestowed in a prominent spot before the chancel rail.

    New Faces Myra Kelly 1893

  • Perhaps because Mary was always either consciously or subconsciously listening for the recalling shrieks of the abandoned and disprized gift of God.

    New Faces Myra Kelly 1893

  • The greater part of his life was spent in Manila, -- in Tondo and in Pandakan, a quaint little village on the south bank of the Pasig, now included in the city, where he appears to have shared the fate largely of poets of other lands, from suffering "the pangs of disprized love" and persecution by the religious authorities, to seeing himself considered by the people about him as a crack-brained dreamer.

    The Social Cancer Jos�� Rizal 1878

  • There’s the respect that makes for so long life, for who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, the pangs of disprized love, the law’s delay, the insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes, when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?

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