different between disparage vs mispraise

English

Etymology

From Middle English disparage (noun), disparagen (verb), from Old French desparage (noun), desparagier (verb), from des- + parage (“equal rank, rank”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s?pæ??d??/

Noun

disparage (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:

     But, for his meane degree might not aspire / To match so high, her friends with counsell sage / Dissuaded her from such a disparage […]

Translations

Verb

disparage (third-person singular simple present disparages, present participle disparaging, simple past and past participle disparaged)

1. To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.
   • August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet

     those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious

   • 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes

     Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms.

3. To ridicule, mock, discredit. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

See also

• vilipend
• belittle
• denigrate
• excoriate

Further reading

• disparage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• disparage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• disparage at OneLook Dictionary Search

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French desparage; equivalent to dis- +? parage.

Alternative forms

• dysperage, disperage, desparage

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis?pa?ra?d?(?)/, /dis?parad?(?)/, /d?s-/

Noun

disparage (uncountable) (rare)

1. Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
2. Ignominy, shame; the state of lacking respect.

Descendants

• English: disparage

References

• “dispar??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-21.

Etymology 2

From Old French desparagier.

Verb

disparage

1. Alternative form of disparagen.

English

Etymology

From mis- +? praise. Compare to French mépriser

Verb

mispraise (third-person singular simple present mispraises, present participle mispraising, simple past and past participle mispraised)

1. (transitive, rare) To praise falsely, injudiciously, or without good reason.
   • 1623, John Donne, The sermons of John Donne, Sermon 12 (Google preview):

     [T]hough I spend my nights, and dayes, and thoughts, and spirits, and words, and preaching, and writing, upon Princes, and Judges, and Magistrates . . . I have not paid a farthing of my debt to God; I have not praised him, but I have praised them, till not only my selfe, but even they, whom I have so mispraised, are the worse in the sight of God, for my over-praising.

   • 1845, Morgan Rattler, "Touching Antony the Triumvir and Cicero the Orator," Fraser's Magazine (September), p. 326 (Google preview):

     We look upon it not so much as a strangely overpraised, but as a mispraised composition. It is a torrent of abuse.

   • 2010, Paul F. O'Rourke (quoting Jonathan Barnes), Offerings to the Discerning Eye, Sue D'Auria (ed.), ?ISBN, p. 247 n.25 (Google preview):

     Anaximander's interest in cosmogony has been vastly overestimated, and his achievements consistently mispraised.

2. (transitive, archaic) To slander, blame, or disparage.
   • 1949, Lionel Trilling, Matthew Arnold, ?ISBN, p. 106 (Google preview):

     On hearing the Duke of Wellington mispraised he defends him, in a sonnet.

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