contemn
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"Did not William Blake contemn reason and paint the ghost of a flea?"
From Time Magazine Archive
The silly crowd, by factious teachers brought To think that faith untrue, their youth was taught, Run on in new opinions, blindly bold, Neglect, contemn, and then assault the old.
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John
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)
When we stand upon life's brink we can afford to contemn the foolish lapping of the waves.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
As Æneas says, “Capistrano had despised the pomps of the world, he had fled from its delights, he had trampled down avarice, he had overcome lust, but he could not contemn glory.”
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
