"mispraise" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1623, John Donne, The sermons of John Donne, Sermon 12 (Google preview)",
          "text": "[T]hough I spend my nights, and dayes, and thoughts, and spirits, and words, and preaching, and writing, upon Princes, and Judges, and Magistrates . . . I have not paid a farthing of my debt to God; I have not praised him, but I have praised them, till not only my selfe, but even they, whom I have so mispraised, are the worse in the sight of God, for my over-praising.",
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          "ref": "1845, Morgan Rattler, \"Touching Antony the Triumvir and Cicero the Orator,\" Fraser's Magazine (September), p. 326 (Google preview)",
          "text": "We look upon it not so much as a strangely overpraised, but as a mispraised composition. It is a torrent of abuse."
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          "ref": "2010, Paul F. O'Rourke (quoting Jonathan Barnes), Offerings to the Discerning Eye, Sue D'Auria (ed.), p. 247 n.25 (Google preview)",
          "text": "Anaximander's interest in cosmogony has been vastly overestimated, and his achievements consistently mispraised."
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        "To praise falsely, injudiciously, or without good reason."
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        "(transitive, rare) To praise falsely, injudiciously, or without good reason."
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          "ref": "1949, Lionel Trilling, Matthew Arnold, page 106",
          "text": "On hearing the Duke of Wellington mispraised he defends him, in a sonnet.",
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        "To slander, blame, or disparage."
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        "(transitive, archaic) To slander, blame, or disparage."
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