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Meaning of underprize | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To undervalue; to underestimate.

transitive

Examples

“[…] Yet look, how far / The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow / In underprizing it, so far this shadow / Doth limp behind the substance.”
“[…] euery man ouer-ualuing his owne worth, would be a Commander: euery man vnder prizing anothers value, denied to be commanded.”
“Teach me to underprize this life, and I / Shall finde my loſſe the eaſier, vvhen I dye; […]”
“No: it would never do to underprize this proof of good will or to read in Liane’s warning any spirit but one of the most earnest anxiety.”
“I underprized your far-out, blathering genius.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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