contemn
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"Did not William Blake contemn reason and paint the ghost of a flea?"
From Time Magazine Archive
You admire, but while you admire you wonder, you reprobate, you contemn.
From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson
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
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 John Dryden
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
