What's the difference between misprise and misprize?

Misprise


Definition:

  • (v. t.) See Misprize.
  • (v. t.) To mistake.

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  • (1) The Anxiety of Influence (1973) , the book for which Bloom probably is best known, contends that the great writers of the western tradition engage in an unrelenting agon with their predecessors – and in some cases, as Bloom would quixotically have it, with themselves, and even with their successors – imitating them, borrowing from them, and engaging in creative misreadings (or misprisions, a favourite Bloomian term) of certain canonical works, chief among them the plays and poems of Shakespeare.
  • (2) Review of federal law revealed that the courts have consistently interpreted the federal misprision statute as requiring active concealment of a crime, not a mere failure to report, in order to convict for the offense.

Misprize


Definition:

  • (v.) To slight or undervalue.

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