Meaning of overprize | Babel Free

Definitions

To prize excessively; to overvalue.

transitive

Examples

“[…] a very pardonable facility in the Parents themselves to overprize their own⟳ Children, while thy behold them through the vapors of affection which alter the appearance […]”

“1777, Granville Sharp, A Tract on the Law of Nature, and Principles of Action in Man, London: B. White and E. & C. Dilly, p. 120, note⟳ 42, A Man apt to over-prize himself, and jealous withal of contempt, of wrong, or of gross abuse, is not so easily appeased with streams of blood, as a calm and gentle spirit is with an ingenuous acknowledgment of wrongs done, or with a courteous answer⟳ for wrongs suspected.”

“[Mr. Balfe] has the gift—now rare, in late days—of melody, and a certain facile humour for the stage⟳, which can hardly be over-prized.”

“1983, John Gardner (American writer), On Becoming a Novelist, Open⟳ Road Media, 2010, Part II, Another reason⟳ workshops become⟳ “workshoppy” is that often teachers slide⟳ unconsciously into overprizing the kind of narrative writing that teaches well, undervaluing and even dismissing work⟳ that does not.”

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