different between praise vs mispraise

English

Etymology

From Middle English praisen, preisen, borrowed from Old French proisier, preisier (“to value, prize”), from Late Latin preti? (“to value, prize”) from pretium (“price, worth, reward”). See prize. Displaced native Middle English lofen, loven (“to praise”) (from Old English lofian, compare Middle English and Old English lof (“praise”), see love, lofe, loff), Middle English herien (“to praise, glorify, celebrate”) (from Old English herian), Middle English rosen (“to praise, glorify”) (from Old Norse hrósa).

Pronunciation

• enPR: pr?z, IPA^(key): /p?e?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z
• Homophones: prays, preys

Noun

praise (countable and uncountable, plural praises)

1. commendation; favourable representation in words

2. worship

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:praise

Antonyms

• blame
• criticize
• See Thesaurus:praise

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

praise (third-person singular simple present praises, present participle praising, simple past and past participle praised)

1. To give praise to; to commend, glorify, or worship.

Antonyms

• blame

Derived terms

• overpraise
• underpraise
• unpraised

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Arispe, Parise, Pearis, Persia, aspire, paires, paries, spirea

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

praise f

1. genitive singular of prais

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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