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Contemn

//kənˈtɛm// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To disdain; to value at little or nothing; to treat or regard with contempt. dated, transitive

    "The subject of the following History [...] is the unhappy Lives, and untimely Deaths, of that Unfortunate English King Edward the Second, and his two Favourites Gaveston and Spencer; for his immoderate love to whom, (Says Dr. Heylin) he was hated by the Nobles, and contemned by the Commons."

  2. 2
    look down on with disdain wordnet
  3. 3
    To commit an offence of contempt, such as contempt of court; to unlawfully flout (e.g. a ruling).

Etymology

From Middle English contempnen, from Old French contemner, from Latin contemnō (“to scorn”). See also contempt.

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