contemn

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

From Time Magazine Archive

I would fain have persuaded him that it was a wild scheme; but he was a soldier, gentlemen, and accustomed to contemn all dangers.

From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

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 Shields, Alexander

It was the sort of thing that in ordinary dealing we denounce and even contemn, as the effort of unsolicited pretension to thrust itself against barred gates with immodest vigor.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

One does not contemn Calne on account of its misfortunes, but it must always have been a slipshod place.

From The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)