contemn
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"Did not William Blake contemn reason and paint the ghost of a flea?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Do you my person and my gift contemn?
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden
If we contemn what others admire, we make ourselves odious; if we admire what they despise, we are equally ridiculous.
From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by William Hazlitt
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
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
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