contemn

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"Did not William Blake contemn reason and paint the ghost of a flea?"

From Time Magazine Archive

Fear not, dear Major Frankfort; you may pity me as unfortunate, and contemn me as weak, but you will not have occasion to condemn.

From Jasper Lyle by Ward, Harriet

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 Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)

It is for her to respect not to contemn her great coadjutor.

From Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study by Leonard, Arthur Glyn

You admire, but while you admire you wonder, you reprobate, you contemn.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver