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▪ I. miseˈsteem, n.
[mis-1 4. Cf. F. mésestime.]
Want of esteem or respect; disrespect.
1850Ogilvie, Misesteem, disregard; slight. 1881F. T. Palgrave Vis. Eng. 111 They of the great race Look equably..on foe And fame and misesteem of man below. 1898Bodley France II. iii. v. 258 The office of minister must remain in misesteem.
▪ II. miseˈsteem, v.
[mis-1 1. Cf. F. mésestimer.]
trans. To have a wrong estimation of. Also miseˈsteeming vbl. n.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. viii. iii. §8. 402 Albeit some Heralds make Harold by birth but a Gentleman of one, and the first descent,..yet..it may seeme he is mis-esteemed, seeing his Father was Goodwin a Duke by degree. 1647H. More Song of Soul ii. i. i. i, I must him tell, that he doth misesteem Their strange estate. 1685Bunyan Pharisee & Publican 51 What kind of righteousness of thine is this, that standeth..in a mis-esteeming of Gods Commands? 1848Lytton Harold vi. vi, I pray you not so to misesteem us. 1850Grote Greece ii. lxvii. VIII. 477 The practical teachers of Athens and of Greece, misconceived as well as misesteemed. 1900Henley Verses War, Envoy, That race is damned which misesteems its fate. |