contemn
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"Did not William Blake contemn reason and paint the ghost of a flea?"
From Time Magazine Archive
His Good Word for Everybody Indeed, he has a good word for everybody, and discerns laudable qualities in some whom the world has agreed to contemn and cast out.
From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
What right," she asked herself, "has this man to undervalue and contemn my purpose?
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
Vile as these motives seem, they are too near akin to the general springs of human action for us to contemn them.
From A Trip to Cuba by Julia Ward Howe
I hope not; for then those who contemn it must do the same by the vaunted Rose, and the rich Carnation; for where do they blow better than in the daisy-bordered flower-beds of the poor?
From Mirror of the Months by Peter George Patmore
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