overprize

== English == === Etymology === From over- +‎ prize. See overpraise. === Verb === overprize (third-person singular simple present overprizes, present participle overprizing, simple past and past participle overprized) (transitive) To prize excessively; to overvalue. 1777, Granville Sharp, A Tract on the Law of Nature, and Principles of Action in Man, London: B. White and E. & C. Dilly, p. 120, note 42,[2] A Man apt to over-prize himself, and jealous withal of contempt, of wrong, or of gross abuse, is not so easily appeased with streams of blood, as a calm and gentle spirit is with an ingenuous acknowledgment of wrongs done, or with a courteous answer for wrongs suspected. 1983, John Gardner (American writer), On Becoming a Novelist, Open Road Media, 2010, Part II,[4] Another reason workshops become “workshoppy” is that often teachers slide unconsciously into overprizing the kind of narrative writing that teaches well, undervaluing and even dismissing work that does not. === References === “overprize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.