misprision

misprision meaning in Urdu

Examples of misprision in a sentence

• Mr Borthrop Trumbull really knew nothing about old Featherstone's will; but he could hardly have been bought to declare any ignorance unless he had been arrested for misprision of treason.1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XXXII, in Middlemarch […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and...
• [T]hey [women] have what men call self-belief and blame you for your misprisions in their dreams, they are conspiracy theorists, benevolent dictators […]1984, Martin Amis, Money: A Suicide Note, London: Penguin Books, published 1985, →ISBN, page 331:
• The boy was grievously distressed by the loss [of a book]; it seemed an insult to Ruth Hailey, and a misprision of her kindly wishes.1895, I[srael] Zangwill, “A Wander-year”, in The Master, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, book I, page 96:
• What if I love you!—This misery / Of your dissatisfaction and misprision / Stupefies me.1917, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “A Bad Beginning”, in Look! We Have Come Through!, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 77:

Synonyms of misprision

• misprisal
• misprizement
• misprizing

Forms of misprision

Origin of misprision

From Late Middle English misprision, mesprision (“criminal offence or illegal action, especially one committed by a public official”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman misprision, mesprision, mesprison (“criminal offence or illegal action; error, mistake, specifically an error by a court”) [and other forms] (whence Late Latin mesprisio, misprisio), and Old French mesprison, from mespris (“contempt, disdain”) (modern French mépris) + -ion (suffix indicating a condition or state). Mespris is the past participle of mesprendre (“to misunderstand”), from mes- (prefix meaning ‘badly; wrongly’) + prendre (“to take”) (from Latin prēndere, the present active infinitive of prēndō, a variant of prehendō (“to seize, take”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to find; to seize, take; to hold”)).

From misprize (“to despise or hold in contempt; to undervalue”) + -ion (suffix indicating a condition or state), probably influenced by misprision (etymology 1). Misprize is derived from Middle English mesprise, mespryse, from Anglo-Norman mespriser, Middle French mespriser, and Old French mesprisier, mesproisier (“to disdain, scorn; to despise, hate”) (modern French mépriser), from mes- (prefix meaning ‘badly; wrongly’) + priser, prisier (“to appraise, value”) (from Late Latin pretiāre, the present active infinitive of pretiō (“to consider valuable, esteem, prize, value”), Medieval Latin pretiō (“to appraise, assess, value”), from Latin pretium (“cost, price; value, worth”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before; in front; first”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).

Related words

• misprisal
• misprize
• misprized
• misprizement
• misprizer
• misprizing

Words that rhyme with misprision

• division
• vision
• circumcision
• concision
• decision
• collision
• excision
• Frisian
• incision
• precision
• revision
• television

Questions about misprision

What does misprision mean?

Misprision means criminal neglect or wrongful execution of duty, especially by a public official; (countable) a specific instance of this.

What is misprision in Urdu?

Misprision in Urdu is غلطی. See Misprision meaning in Urdu.

How do you use misprision in a sentence?

Mr Borthrop Trumbull really knew nothing about old Featherstone's will; but he could hardly have been bought to declare any ignorance unless he had been arrested for misprision of treason.

What part of speech is misprision?

Misprision is a noun.

How do you pronounce misprision?

Misprision is pronounced /ˌmɪsˈpɹɪʒn̩/ (UK).

What is the plural of misprision?

The plural of misprision is misprisions.