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misesteem

noun
/ˌmɪsɪsˈtiːm/

Etymology

From mis- + esteem. Compare French mésestime.

  1. borrowed from aestimō
  2. borrowed from estimer
  3. prefixed as misesteem — “mis + esteem”

Definitions

  1. Lack of esteem

    Lack of esteem; disrespect.

    • The daily sight of this my sovereign's sweet humility, and his detachment from earthly things, works in me a contagious misesteem for this brief life […]
    • The years after the war mark the lowest depths of misesteem attached to the Napoleonic legend since Las Cases published the Memorial.

  2. To hold in the wrong esteem

    To hold in the wrong esteem; to disrespect.

    • Whatever man he be that dares to deem True poet's skill to spring of earthly race, I must him tell, that he doth misesteem Their strange estate, and eke himself disgrace By his rude ignorance.
    • "My good friend Sexwolf," quoth the Norman, in very tolerable Saxon, “I pray you not so to misesteem us."
    • And yet, what does it matter though the low-trailing lights of a decadent literature and a fainéant criticism belittle and misesteem?

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA