misesteem

/ˌmɪsɪsˈtiːm/

misesteem noun: lack of esteem; disrespect.

Noun

misesteem (uncountable)

(archaic) 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 […]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...1887, Oswald John F. Crawfurd, Beyond the seas, page 55

misesteem (third-person singular simple present misesteems, present participle misesteeming, simple past and past participle misesteemed)

(transitive) 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.1640, Henry More, The Song of the Soul
- "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

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:
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:

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

From mis- + esteem. Compare French mésestime.

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What does misesteem mean?: Misesteem means lack of esteem; disrespect.
How do you use misesteem in a sentence?: The years after the war mark the lowest depths of misesteem attached to the Napoleonic legend since Las Cases published the Memorial.
What part of speech is misesteem?: Misesteem can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce misesteem?: Misesteem is pronounced /ˌmɪsɪsˈtiːm/.

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