contemn
Example Sentences
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"Did not William Blake contemn reason and paint the ghost of a flea?"
From Time Magazine Archive
His Good Word for Everybody Indeed, he has a good word for everybody, and discerns laudable qualities in some whom the world has agreed to contemn and cast out.
From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
Surely all this was enough to make one despair and contemn the whole idea of intercourse with spirits… But Jessie suddenly became aware of a basic illogicality in her position.
From Across the Stream by Edward Frederic Benson
Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord God.
From The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition by Arno C. Gaebelein
The enemy will most certainly be put to flight if thou wilt thus contemn both him and his suggestions.
From On Union with God by P. J. Berthier
