underprize

Example Sentences

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"As nature will be over-bounteous in one season, strewing so many flowers in our path that we do underprize them till they are lost, and all the world seems stricken with wintry desolation."

From A Set of Rogues by Barrett, Frank

Nor while I live, heed I what man doth praise Or underprize mine unaffected layes.

From Democritus Platonissans by More, Henry

The point is well put by Plato, the most spiritually minded of the Greeks, and the least apt to underprize the qualities of the soul.

From The Greek View of Life by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)