contemn
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"Did not William Blake contemn reason and paint the ghost of a flea?"
From Time Magazine Archive
"If you contemn my thanks, then I, poor orphan, have no other way to show my gratitude."
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Poor thou marriedst my Louise; I therefore believe thou dost love her; and let not the remembrance of her mother ever induce thee to slight or contemn her.
From The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes by Sophia Reeve
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
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
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