contemn
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"Did not William Blake contemn reason and paint the ghost of a flea?"
From Time Magazine Archive
No doubt it is both ignorant and stupid to contemn what you cannot understand.
From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield
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
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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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 Henry Charles Lea
