Definition of Prized

1. Adjective. Highly valued, cherished. ¹

2. Verb. (past of prize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Prized

1. prize [v] - See also: prize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prized

privy
privy(p)
privy council
privy councils
privy purse
privy seal
prix fixe
prizable
prize
prize-taking
prize-winning
prize money
prize ring
prize winner
prized (current term)
prizefight
prizefighter
prizefighters
prizefighting
prizefightings
prizefights
prizeless
prizelike
prizeman
prizemen
prizemoney
prizer
prizers
prizes

Literary usage of Prized

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The wines that they used were preserved in jars or bottles of baked clay, and, as they were prized in proportion to their age, each receptacle bore a label ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The ripe nuts when dried have very hard shells and are highly prized for dessert in regions where the trees grow; and the green nuts are used for making ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1880)
"... passionate wish of a very anxious lover to know what were the contents and who the writer of a letter which the beloved of his heart prized so highly. ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1855)
"Its appearance, along with that of a few others of similar tone and tendency, will be prized as the best evidence of decided progress in this branch of ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... on the other hand, is highly prized by historians, who " find the account given by the poetess of direct assistance in historical work". ..."

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