contemn
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"Did not William Blake contemn reason and paint the ghost of a flea?"
From Time Magazine Archive
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
We must contemn all the vile, that are not under a relation to be honoured, and these also that are in that relation, in so far as they are vile.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields
The King does not believe that I would contemn his commands--in his heart he does not, I am sure!
From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
You admire, but while you admire you wonder, you reprobate, you contemn.
From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson
