contemn

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"Did not William Blake contemn reason and paint the ghost of a flea?"

From Time Magazine Archive

Crafty men contemn them, wise men use them, simple men admire them; for they teach not their own use, but that there is a wisdom without them and above them won by observation.

From The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature by Parsons, Frank

I would fain have persuaded him that it was a wild scheme; but he was a soldier, gentlemen, and accustomed to contemn all dangers.

From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

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

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

Then why must I, Who had in me a hope That rivalled Raphael's or Leonardo's, Keep, cozened so, that I contemn her shame?

From The Immortal Lure by Rice, Cale Young