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geringschätzen

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German

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Etymology

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gering (“low, little”) +‎ schätzen (“esteem”). Compare Dutch geringschatten.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡəˈʁɪŋˌʃɛt͡sn̩/
  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)

Verb

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geringschätzen (weak, third-person singular present schätzt gering, past tense schätzte gering, past participle geringgeschätzt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to despise, disdain, hold in contempt, attach little value to
    • 1913 [1878], chapter 14, in Hermann Röhl, transl., Anna Karenina‎[1], translation of Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina) by Leo Tolstoy, part 5:
      […] im Gegenteil, sein ganzes Eheleben setzte sich aus denselben nichtigen Kleinigkeiten zusammen, die er früher so geringgeschätzt hatte, die aber jetzt, ganz gegen seinen Willen, eine außerordentliche, unbestreitbare Bedeutung erlangt hatten.
      And all of a sudden, instead of his life with his wife being made on an individual pattern, it was, on the contrary, entirely made up of the pettiest details, which he had so despised before, but which now, by no will of his own, had gained an extraordinary importance that it was useless to contend against.

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