misprisionn.¹

Brit.

/ˌmɪsˈprɪʒn/, U.S.

/ˌmɪsˈprɪʒ(ə)n/

Forms: late Middle English mesprisoun, late Middle English mispresyon, late Middle English mysprecion, late Middle English–1500s mesprision, late Middle English–1500s mysprision, late Middle English–1500s mysseprision, late Middle English– misprision, 1500s mesprysion, 1500s missprision, 1500s mysprysyon, 1500s–1600s 1800s– misprison, 1600s misprission, 1600s misprizian.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mesprison.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman mesprison, mesprisun, mesprisoun, mesprision, mesprisiun, mesprisioun mistake, error, misdeed, crime, fault, judicial error (second half of the 12th cent.; compare Old French mesprison ) < mespris (see misprize v.¹) + -ion -ion suffix¹ (for variation in the ending of the Anglo-Norman word see prison n. and discussion at that entry). Compare Old Occitan mespreiso, mespreison wrong, misdeed, crime, fault, harm (c1149). Compare also post-classical Latin mesprisio, misprisio (frequent in British sources from the late 12th to the 16th centuries; < Anglo-Norman).With misprision of treason (see sense 1b), compare post-classical Latin misprisio proditionis (from 16th cent. in British sources). In phrase misprision of the clerk (see sense 2a), after Law French misprision del clerke; compare Anglo-Norman mesprisioun de nouns, de surnoun misnomer (see F. M. Nichols Britton I. 317, 318).

a. Law. A wrongful act or omission; spec. a misdemeanour or failure of duty by a public official. Now rare except in sense 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > seizing > catching or capture > [noun] > wrongful capture

misprision1425

society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a crime > misdemeanour or malfeasance

misprision1425

misdemeaning1487

misdemeanour1504

misimprision1611

misfeasancea1626

malfeasance1663

misdemean1742

1425 Rolls of Parl. IV. 306/2 Suche misprisions and defautes of ye said Sherefs.

1442 Rolls of Parl. V. 60/1 How..awners of divers Shippes, that have, be commaundement of the Kynges Counseill, sent their Shippes to the See, and they nought sette in their Shippes Maisters ne Maryners, for their mesprision on the See were putte in grete trouble.

1450 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 56 To enquere, here, and determyn all trespaces..and mesprisions by hem or ony of hem doen.

1491 Act 7 Hen. VII c. 22 §1 Mesprision by hym commytted and doon ayenst the Kynges moost royal persone.

a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 54 (MED) Neuirthelesse..ye make therof a violent bruyte and mesprision to Almighty God, redy to breke the lawe for delyte of pryve raveyne, to the grette trouble of subiectis.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. vii. sig. Cvii If any persone..were sene to laughe at the folye of the emperour, he was forthe with accused as it were of missprision.

a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) iii. 120 To pronounce a Traytors judgement upon a Fellon, or a Fellons judgement upon a Traytor, is grand misprision.

1648 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. iii. lxv. 139 If any man in Westminster Hall [etc.]..shall draw a weapon upon a Judge, or Justice, though he strike not; this is a great misprision.

1776 J. Bentham Fragm. on Govt. Pref. p. l With offences..against prerogative, with misprisions, contempts, felonies, præmunires?

1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xvi. 476 All defaults and misprisions whereby the king was injured or the law broken.

b. Law (now historical in some jurisdictions). In full misprision of treason, misprision of felony. Originally: an offence similar to but less serious than treason or felony. Now usually: the crime of (deliberately) concealing one's knowledge of a treasonable act or of a felony.It was often supposed, from the fact that a person's knowledge of treasonable actions or designs was deemed in various statutes to be misprision of treason, that the word misprision itself expressed the sense of ‘failure to denounce’ a crime. Sir E. Coke attempted to account for this development etymologically:

a1634 E. Coke 3rd Pt. Inst. Laws Eng. (1644) iii. 36 Misprisio commeth of the French word Mepris, which properly signifieth mal, as mis doth in the English tongue: as mischance, for an ill-chance, and so mesprise is ill apprehended or known. In legall understanding it signifieth, when one knoweth of any treason or felony, and concealeth it, this is misprision, so called, because the knowledge of it is an ill knowledge to him, in respect of the severe punishment for not revealing of it.

In English law the crime of misprision of felony lapsed upon the abolition of the distinction between felonies and misdemeanours by the Criminal Law Act 1967.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a crime > felony

felony1303

misprision1533

society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > treason > offences related to treason

petty treason1496

misprision of treason1533

petit treason1605

statutory treason1678

constructive treasona1715

treason-felony1865

1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 22 §9 Yf any person..being commaunded..to take the seid othe..obstynatly refuse that to doo..that every suche refusall shalbe..adjudged mesprysion of high treason.

1551–2 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 11 Provided also..that concealment or kepinge secrete of any Highe Treason be deemed and taken only mysprision of Treason.

1572 Act 14 Eliz. c. 3 That yf any person or persons hereafter..counterfayte any suche kind of Coygne..as is not the proper Coigne of this Realme... That then everye suche Offence shalbee deemed and adjudged mysprision of Highe Treason.

1579 Rastell's Expos. Termes Lawes (new ed.) (at cited word) Misprision of felonie or trespasse.

1620 in J. Smith Hist. Bermudaes (1882) 180 Now, besides thes two sortes, high treason and petye treason, the lawyers mention a third kind, which they tearme misprision of treason.

1690 in G. Lamoine Charges to Grand Jury (1992) 39 Misprisions of Treasons are those that conceal any sort of Treasons, or harbour the Traytors, knowing them to be such.

1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 119 Misprisions..are..generally understood to be all such high offences as are under the degree of capital, but nearly bordering thereon: and it is said, that a misprision is contained in every treason and felony whatsoever; and that, if the king so please, the offender may be proceeded against for the misprision only.

1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! II. vi. 176 Amyas was guilty of something very like misprision of treason in not handing him over to the nearest justice.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. xxxii. 161 He could hardly have been brought to declare any ignorance unless he had been arrested for misprision of treason.

1912 Catholic Encycl. XIV. 692/1 Four days later he [sc. Thomas More] was removed to the Tower, and in the following November was attainted of misprision of treason.

1962 Ld. Denning in Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 554 Lawyers know, roughly..what ‘misprision of felony’ means. It means that a man knows that a felony has been committed and neglects to disclose it.

1963 Times 2 Mar. 9/5 If the police then decline to prosecute, it is very possible that, under a recent decision of the House of Lords, they will be liable for misprision of felony.

1986 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 9 Dec. a14/1 A criminal statute called ‘misprision of a felony’ makes it a crime in some circumstances to fail to report knowledge of a crime committed.

†c. In general extended use. With of. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) 54 It was almost made an Heresie..for any one to be seen in his company, and a misprision of Heresie to give him a civil Salutation as he walked the Streets.

1769 W. Draper in ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. ii. 19 A sort of misprision of treason against society.

1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic I. ii. i. 262 The edict..provided against all misprision of heresy by making those who failed to betray the suspected liable to the same punishment as if suspected or convicted themselves.

1862 T. A. Trollope Marietta I. ix. 153 Guilty of mis-prision of flirting.

†a. Law. misprision of the clerk n. (also misprision of the clerks) a clerical error. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1543 tr. Act 14 Edw. III c. 6 That by the misprision of the clerkes of euery place, no proces shalbe adnulled or discontinued, by mistakinge in writynge one syllable or one letter to moche or to lytle.

1543 tr. Act 8 Hen. VI c. 15 By mysprysyon of the clerkes of any of the sayd courtes of the kyng.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Misprision of Clerks, a Neglect or Default of Clerks in Writing, Engrossing or keeping Records.

b. More generally: the mistaking of one thing for another; a misunderstanding; a mistake.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > incorrect information > [noun] > mistake of a thing for another

quid pro quo1580

misprision1594

1594 H. Plat Jewell House 17 By the misprision of the Brewer of English hoppes for Flemish hoppes.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 96 A Feuer in your blood, why then incision Would let her out in Sawcers, sweete misprison [1623 misprision] .

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 90 Of thy misprision, must perforce ensue Some true loue turnd.

1624 R. Sanderson Serm. I. 170 An earthly judge is subject to misprision, mis-information, partiality, corruption.

1630 J. Smith True Trav. Ep. Ded. To prevent therefore all future misprisons, I have compiled this true discourse.

1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 121 To use the Middle-Finger instead of the Index..is much to be condemned... Paschalius alluding to the same misprision of the Hand [etc.].

1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion xii. 30 He intended to have foysted into his Chamber the Coffer..but by misprision he had hid it in the Chamber of Raymond.

1774 J. Bryant New Syst. II. 410 The fable of the Horse certainly arose from a misprision of terms.

1817 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) I. 114 Lady Jersey goes on calling Lord Morley Boringdon, and..he endures this misprision.

1846 J. C. Hare Mission of Comforter II. 395 The misprision of this passage has aided in fostering the delusive notion.

1951 W. Styron Lie down in Darkness v. 195 He felt pity for her, and despised himself..for his misprision.

1997 Observer 16 Mar. (Review section) 5/1 It occurs to me that this tale of hope (a good catch), disappointment and misprision could sum up his life story.

†c. Malformation, regarded as a mistake on the part of Nature; an instance of this. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [noun] > part or organ

forshapingc1320

monstrosity1555

misprision1650

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 212 These misprisions of Nature in this Organical part.

1653 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) i. 16 To preserve what is according to Nature, and in case of misprision to reduce unto the Naturall state.

d. Literary Criticism. Harold Bloom's term for: (an) unconscious misreading or misinterpretation of a text.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > [noun] > instance of

misconceit?1435

miscollectinga1600

mistake1600

miscollection1610

misimagination1618

misimpression1670

mal-entendu1780

cross-reading1784

misconcept1942

misprision1973

1973 H. Bloom Anxiety of Influence i. 14 Clinamen..is poetic misreading or misprision proper.

1981 N.Y. Times 27 Dec. vii. 5/3 Sartre here develops a theory of generational ‘misprision’ (or misreading), drawing on the concept of the ‘practico-inert’.

1988 Classical Rev. 38 244 This last misprision mars what is otherwise a very exciting interpretation of the second half of the Fourth Georgic.

3. Mistaken or unjust suspicion; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > [noun] > without evidence

suspicionc1290

conjecture1535

misprision1657

1657 J. Trapp Comm. Esther v. 2 Neither did he command her to the block, as Henry the eighth did his Anne Bullen, upon a meer misprision of disloyalty.

1705 in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 156 Any temporary Misprisons we may for a short time (till the reason of the thing be duly considered) lye under at home.

1923 World's Work May 563/2 He..expected that he had been arrested in mistake for me. Unfortunately neither of us was justified in our hopes of misprision.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

misprisionn.²

Brit.

/ˌmɪsˈprɪʒn/, U.S.

/ˌmɪsˈprɪʒ(ə)n/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: misprize v.², -ion suffix¹.

Etymology: < misprize v.² + -ion suffix¹, probably after misprision n.¹ Compare earlier misprisement n., misprizing n., and slightly earlier misprize n.²

Contempt, scorn; failure to appreciate or recognize the value of something. Usually with of.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun]

scornc1175

scarec1275

disdainc1290

forhoghta1300

despite1340

unworthhead1340

unworthness1340

despising1382

byscorn1387

contempta1393

daina1400

dedignationc1400

vilityc1430

despisec1440

contemption1467

lightliness1479

despection1482

misprisement1483

misprizing1485

contemnment1502

fastidie1536

misprize1590

misprision1592

sdeign1595

misprisal1596

despisement1603

disesteem1603

disestimation1619

despiciency1623

despect1624

disopinion1625

under-opinion1629

despisal1650

parvipension1675

sneer1791

misesteem1832

despication1837

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > [noun] > underestimation or undervaluing

misprizing1485

disprizing1500

underweening1574

misprize1590

misprision1592

underrating1599

extenuation1607

under-opinion1629

undervaluing1656

extenuating1671

underratement1708

inappreciation1864

minifying1867

lowballing1957

1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. S1^v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) [Such men] do of seruants become sawcy..of aduisers arrogant, and consequently running into euery misprision of others.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 153 That dost in vile misprision shackle vp My loue, and her desert.

1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 19 The Legions particularly had in great misprision the Adversaries Horse.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. iii. 42 Those..persons..have their hearts barred against conviction by prejudice and misprision.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 301 Peleus sister alike and brother in high misprision Held.

1895 I. Zangwill Master i. viii. 96 It seemed an insult to Ruth Hailey, and a misprision of her kindly wishes.

1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 77 This misery Of your dissatisfaction and misprision Stupefies me.

1964 L. Woolf Beginning Again III. 231 He looked at me with some misprision.

1987 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 15 Jan. ii. 4/4 If American foreign policy blunders in its dealings with Islamic nations, it is at the level of cultural arrogance and historical misprision.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	misprision
释义	misprisionn.¹ Brit. /ˌmɪsˈprɪʒn/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈprɪʒ(ə)n/ Forms: late Middle English mesprisoun, late Middle English mispresyon, late Middle English mysprecion, late Middle English–1500s mesprision, late Middle English–1500s mysprision, late Middle English–1500s mysseprision, late Middle English– misprision, 1500s mesprysion, 1500s missprision, 1500s mysprysyon, 1500s–1600s 1800s– misprison, 1600s misprission, 1600s misprizian. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mesprison. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman mesprison, mesprisun, mesprisoun, mesprision, mesprisiun, mesprisioun mistake, error, misdeed, crime, fault, judicial error (second half of the 12th cent.; compare Old French mesprison ) < mespris (see misprize v.¹) + -ion -ion suffix¹ (for variation in the ending of the Anglo-Norman word see prison n. and discussion at that entry). Compare Old Occitan mespreiso, mespreison wrong, misdeed, crime, fault, harm (c1149). Compare also post-classical Latin mesprisio, misprisio (frequent in British sources from the late 12th to the 16th centuries; < Anglo-Norman).With misprision of treason (see sense 1b), compare post-classical Latin misprisio proditionis (from 16th cent. in British sources). In phrase misprision of the clerk (see sense 2a), after Law French misprision del clerke; compare Anglo-Norman mesprisioun de nouns, de surnoun misnomer (see F. M. Nichols Britton I. 317, 318). 1. a. Law. A wrongful act or omission; spec. a misdemeanour or failure of duty by a public official. Now rare except in sense 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > seizing > catching or capture > [noun] > wrongful capture misprision1425 society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a crime > misdemeanour or malfeasance misprision1425 misdemeaning1487 misdemeanour1504 misimprision1611 misfeasancea1626 malfeasance1663 misdemean1742 1425 Rolls of Parl. IV. 306/2 Suche misprisions and defautes of ye said Sherefs. 1442 Rolls of Parl. V. 60/1 How..awners of divers Shippes, that have, be commaundement of the Kynges Counseill, sent their Shippes to the See, and they nought sette in their Shippes Maisters ne Maryners, for their mesprision on the See were putte in grete trouble. 1450 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 56 To enquere, here, and determyn all trespaces..and mesprisions by hem or ony of hem doen. 1491 Act 7 Hen. VII c. 22 §1 Mesprision by hym commytted and doon ayenst the Kynges moost royal persone. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 54 (MED) Neuirthelesse..ye make therof a violent bruyte and mesprision to Almighty God, redy to breke the lawe for delyte of pryve raveyne, to the grette trouble of subiectis. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. vii. sig. Cvii If any persone..were sene to laughe at the folye of the emperour, he was forthe with accused as it were of missprision. a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) iii. 120 To pronounce a Traytors judgement upon a Fellon, or a Fellons judgement upon a Traytor, is grand misprision. 1648 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. iii. lxv. 139 If any man in Westminster Hall [etc.]..shall draw a weapon upon a Judge, or Justice, though he strike not; this is a great misprision. 1776 J. Bentham Fragm. on Govt. Pref. p. l With offences..against prerogative, with misprisions, contempts, felonies, præmunires? 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xvi. 476 All defaults and misprisions whereby the king was injured or the law broken. b. Law (now historical in some jurisdictions). In full misprision of treason, misprision of felony. Originally: an offence similar to but less serious than treason or felony. Now usually: the crime of (deliberately) concealing one's knowledge of a treasonable act or of a felony.It was often supposed, from the fact that a person's knowledge of treasonable actions or designs was deemed in various statutes to be misprision of treason, that the word misprision itself expressed the sense of ‘failure to denounce’ a crime. Sir E. Coke attempted to account for this development etymologically: a1634 E. Coke 3rd Pt. Inst. Laws Eng. (1644) iii. 36 Misprisio commeth of the French word Mepris, which properly signifieth mal, as mis doth in the English tongue: as mischance, for an ill-chance, and so mesprise is ill apprehended or known. In legall understanding it signifieth, when one knoweth of any treason or felony, and concealeth it, this is misprision, so called, because the knowledge of it is an ill knowledge to him, in respect of the severe punishment for not revealing of it. In English law the crime of misprision of felony lapsed upon the abolition of the distinction between felonies and misdemeanours by the Criminal Law Act 1967. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a crime > felony felony1303 misprision1533 society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > treason > offences related to treason petty treason1496 misprision of treason1533 petit treason1605 statutory treason1678 constructive treasona1715 treason-felony1865 1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 22 §9 Yf any person..being commaunded..to take the seid othe..obstynatly refuse that to doo..that every suche refusall shalbe..adjudged mesprysion of high treason. 1551–2 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 11 Provided also..that concealment or kepinge secrete of any Highe Treason be deemed and taken only mysprision of Treason. 1572 Act 14 Eliz. c. 3 That yf any person or persons hereafter..counterfayte any suche kind of Coygne..as is not the proper Coigne of this Realme... That then everye suche Offence shalbee deemed and adjudged mysprision of Highe Treason. 1579 Rastell's Expos. Termes Lawes (new ed.) (at cited word) Misprision of felonie or trespasse. 1620 in J. Smith Hist. Bermudaes (1882) 180 Now, besides thes two sortes, high treason and petye treason, the lawyers mention a third kind, which they tearme misprision of treason. 1690 in G. Lamoine Charges to Grand Jury (1992) 39 Misprisions of Treasons are those that conceal any sort of Treasons, or harbour the Traytors, knowing them to be such. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 119 Misprisions..are..generally understood to be all such high offences as are under the degree of capital, but nearly bordering thereon: and it is said, that a misprision is contained in every treason and felony whatsoever; and that, if the king so please, the offender may be proceeded against for the misprision only. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! II. vi. 176 Amyas was guilty of something very like misprision of treason in not handing him over to the nearest justice. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. xxxii. 161 He could hardly have been brought to declare any ignorance unless he had been arrested for misprision of treason. 1912 Catholic Encycl. XIV. 692/1 Four days later he [sc. Thomas More] was removed to the Tower, and in the following November was attainted of misprision of treason. 1962 Ld. Denning in Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 554 Lawyers know, roughly..what ‘misprision of felony’ means. It means that a man knows that a felony has been committed and neglects to disclose it. 1963 Times 2 Mar. 9/5 If the police then decline to prosecute, it is very possible that, under a recent decision of the House of Lords, they will be liable for misprision of felony. 1986 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 9 Dec. a14/1 A criminal statute called ‘misprision of a felony’ makes it a crime in some circumstances to fail to report knowledge of a crime committed. †c. In general extended use. With of. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) 54 It was almost made an Heresie..for any one to be seen in his company, and a misprision of Heresie to give him a civil Salutation as he walked the Streets. 1769 W. Draper in ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. ii. 19 A sort of misprision of treason against society. 1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic I. ii. i. 262 The edict..provided against all misprision of heresy by making those who failed to betray the suspected liable to the same punishment as if suspected or convicted themselves. 1862 T. A. Trollope Marietta I. ix. 153 Guilty of mis-prision of flirting. 2. †a. Law. misprision of the clerk n. (also misprision of the clerks) a clerical error. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1543 tr. Act 14 Edw. III c. 6 That by the misprision of the clerkes of euery place, no proces shalbe adnulled or discontinued, by mistakinge in writynge one syllable or one letter to moche or to lytle. 1543 tr. Act 8 Hen. VI c. 15 By mysprysyon of the clerkes of any of the sayd courtes of the kyng. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Misprision of Clerks, a Neglect or Default of Clerks in Writing, Engrossing or keeping Records. b. More generally: the mistaking of one thing for another; a misunderstanding; a mistake. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > incorrect information > [noun] > mistake of a thing for another quid pro quo1580 misprision1594 1594 H. Plat Jewell House 17 By the misprision of the Brewer of English hoppes for Flemish hoppes. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 96 A Feuer in your blood, why then incision Would let her out in Sawcers, sweete misprison [1623 misprision] . View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 90 Of thy misprision, must perforce ensue Some true loue turnd. View more context for this quotation 1624 R. Sanderson Serm. I. 170 An earthly judge is subject to misprision, mis-information, partiality, corruption. 1630 J. Smith True Trav. Ep. Ded. To prevent therefore all future misprisons, I have compiled this true discourse. 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 121 To use the Middle-Finger instead of the Index..is much to be condemned... Paschalius alluding to the same misprision of the Hand [etc.]. 1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion xii. 30 He intended to have foysted into his Chamber the Coffer..but by misprision he had hid it in the Chamber of Raymond. 1774 J. Bryant New Syst. II. 410 The fable of the Horse certainly arose from a misprision of terms. 1817 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) I. 114 Lady Jersey goes on calling Lord Morley Boringdon, and..he endures this misprision. 1846 J. C. Hare Mission of Comforter II. 395 The misprision of this passage has aided in fostering the delusive notion. 1951 W. Styron Lie down in Darkness v. 195 He felt pity for her, and despised himself..for his misprision. 1997 Observer 16 Mar. (Review section) 5/1 It occurs to me that this tale of hope (a good catch), disappointment and misprision could sum up his life story. †c. Malformation, regarded as a mistake on the part of Nature; an instance of this. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [noun] > part or organ forshapingc1320 monstrosity1555 misprision1650 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 212 These misprisions of Nature in this Organical part. 1653 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) i. 16 To preserve what is according to Nature, and in case of misprision to reduce unto the Naturall state. d. Literary Criticism. Harold Bloom's term for: (an) unconscious misreading or misinterpretation of a text. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > [noun] > instance of misconceit?1435 miscollectinga1600 mistake1600 miscollection1610 misimagination1618 misimpression1670 mal-entendu1780 cross-reading1784 misconcept1942 misprision1973 1973 H. Bloom Anxiety of Influence i. 14 Clinamen..is poetic misreading or misprision proper. 1981 N.Y. Times 27 Dec. vii. 5/3 Sartre here develops a theory of generational ‘misprision’ (or misreading), drawing on the concept of the ‘practico-inert’. 1988 Classical Rev. 38 244 This last misprision mars what is otherwise a very exciting interpretation of the second half of the Fourth Georgic. 3. Mistaken or unjust suspicion; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > [noun] > without evidence suspicionc1290 conjecture1535 misprision1657 1657 J. Trapp Comm. Esther v. 2 Neither did he command her to the block, as Henry the eighth did his Anne Bullen, upon a meer misprision of disloyalty. 1705 in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 156 Any temporary Misprisons we may for a short time (till the reason of the thing be duly considered) lye under at home. 1923 World's Work May 563/2 He..expected that he had been arrested in mistake for me. Unfortunately neither of us was justified in our hopes of misprision. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). misprisionn.² Brit. /ˌmɪsˈprɪʒn/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈprɪʒ(ə)n/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: misprize v.², -ion suffix¹. Etymology: < misprize v.² + -ion suffix¹, probably after misprision n.¹ Compare earlier misprisement n., misprizing n., and slightly earlier misprize n.² Contempt, scorn; failure to appreciate or recognize the value of something. Usually with of. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun] scornc1175 scarec1275 disdainc1290 forhoghta1300 despite1340 unworthhead1340 unworthness1340 despising1382 byscorn1387 contempta1393 daina1400 dedignationc1400 vilityc1430 despisec1440 contemption1467 lightliness1479 despection1482 misprisement1483 misprizing1485 contemnment1502 fastidie1536 misprize1590 misprision1592 sdeign1595 misprisal1596 despisement1603 disesteem1603 disestimation1619 despiciency1623 despect1624 disopinion1625 under-opinion1629 despisal1650 parvipension1675 sneer1791 misesteem1832 despication1837 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > [noun] > underestimation or undervaluing misprizing1485 disprizing1500 underweening1574 misprize1590 misprision1592 underrating1599 extenuation1607 under-opinion1629 undervaluing1656 extenuating1671 underratement1708 inappreciation1864 minifying1867 lowballing1957 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. S1^v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) [Such men] do of seruants become sawcy..of aduisers arrogant, and consequently running into euery misprision of others. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 153 That dost in vile misprision shackle vp My loue, and her desert. View more context for this quotation 1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 19 The Legions particularly had in great misprision the Adversaries Horse. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. iii. 42 Those..persons..have their hearts barred against conviction by prejudice and misprision. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 301 Peleus sister alike and brother in high misprision Held. 1895 I. Zangwill Master i. viii. 96 It seemed an insult to Ruth Hailey, and a misprision of her kindly wishes. 1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 77 This misery Of your dissatisfaction and misprision Stupefies me. 1964 L. Woolf Beginning Again III. 231 He looked at me with some misprision. 1987 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 15 Jan. ii. 4/4 If American foreign policy blunders in its dealings with Islamic nations, it is at the level of cultural arrogance and historical misprision. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1425n.²1592
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