Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To value too highly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To value or prize at too high a rate.
- To surpass in value.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To prize excessively; to overvalue.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
prize excessively; toovervalue .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But take heed withal, lest that whilst thou dust settle thy contentment in things present, thou grow in time so to overprize them, as that the want of them (whensoever it shall so fall out) should be a trouble and a vexation unto thee.
Meditations Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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Not that he designed to oblige us to a strict imitation of him in this particular; for he might, and we may lawfully possess and enjoy these things: but to teach us not to overprize them, not to seek them too earnestly, nor love them inordinately.
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 08. 1630-1694 1820
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“Well! your worship,” quoth Yeo, “it may be that being a gunner I overprize guns.
Westward Ho! 2007
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"Well! your worship," quoth Yeo, "it may be that being a gunner I overprize guns.
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
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