different between mispraise vs dispraise

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.

References

English

Etymology

From Old French despreisier. Doublet of disprize.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??sp?e?z/

Verb

dispraise (third-person singular simple present dispraises, present participle dispraising, simple past and past participle dispraised)

1. To notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage, to criticize.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts XIII:

     They spake agaynst it, and dispraysed it, raylinge on it.

   • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 157:

     He became familiar with that habit of mind which dispraises what it most envies and admires: with that habit of mind which desires only what it cannot have.

Noun

dispraise

1. Blame; reproach.

Anagrams

• diparesis