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Disprize Dis Pryz Verb Tr Disdain Scorn French Desprisier

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disprize /dis-PRYZ/
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verb tr.
To disdain or scorn.

[From Old French desprisier (dispraise), from Latin pretium (price, worth, or reward). Ultimately from the Indo-European root per- (to traffic in, to sell) which also gave us praise, price, precious, appreciate, appraise, and interpret. Earliest documented use: 1480.]

"And disprize them [jingles] as we might, they are an art form." - James Parker; Let Us Now Praise... Jingles; The Boston Globe; Dec 6, 2009.

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