misprision

Meaning

Noun

Despising or holding in contempt; disdain, scorn.
Not seeing the value in something; undervaluing.

Origin

+ prendre (from Latin prēndere, the present active infinitive of prēndō, a variant of prehendō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed-).

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