contemn

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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 Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)

It seemed to her that men who play golf-croquet and watch cricket matches have no business to contemn men who risk their lives in the air.

From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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 Berthier, P. J.

You admire, but while you admire you wonder, you reprobate, you contemn.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver