misesteem

1. archaicuncountableLack of esteem; disrespect.

   The years after the war mark the lowest depths of misesteem attached to the Napoleonic legend since Las Cases published the Memorial.

   1898, John Edward Courtenay Bodley, The revolution and modern France

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   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 […]

   1867, Georgina Fullerton, A Stormy Life

   Not but that his Lordship, what with his own wide reading of the ancients, his soldier's life, and therefore constant listening in the camp and at the mess to the just defamation of the sex by honest fellows by it cajoled, and as an effect of my own constant hortations in season and out, had arrived at such a misesteem and despizal of womankind as even I could scarce wish made stronger.

   1887, Oswald John F. Crawfurd, Beyond the seas, page 55

present singular third person misesteems · participle present misesteeming · participle past misesteemed · past misesteemed

1. transitiveTo hold in the wrong esteem; to disrespect.

   "My good friend Sexwolf," quoth the Norman, in very tolerable Saxon, “I pray you not so to misesteem us."

   1892, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Harold

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   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.

   1640, Henry More, The Song of the Soul

   And yet, what does it matter though the low-trailing lights of a decadent literature and a fainéant criticism belittle and misesteem?

   1894, Alfred Thomas Story, James Holmes and John Varley, page 65