10 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
originFrom 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…
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