overprize

Verb

overprize (third-person singular simple present overprizes, present participle overprizing, simple past and past participle overprized)

1. (transitive) To prize excessively; to overvalue.
   • […] 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 […]1651, Henry Wotton, “A Surveigh of Education”, in Reliquiae Wottonianae, London: R. Marriot, page 320
   • 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.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