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Definition of Contemners
1. contemner [n] - See also: contemner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contemners
Literary usage of Contemners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sacred Classics: Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity by Henry Stebbing, Richard Cattermole (1835)
"ON CHURCH contemners. THOSE church contemners, that can easily weigh The profit
of a sermon with a play ; Whose testy stomachs can digest as well, ..."
2. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Guizot (François), Léopold Delisle (1853)
"... and lovers of truth, and had been for a long time held in the highest esteem
in the .1 toman court, as men of probity and contemners of avarice. ..."
3. Collections of the Virginia Historical Society by Virginia Historical Society (1892)
"... upon those penalties that the refractories and contemners of the authority of
the Ba * * may expect; and the Governors and officers of the said ..."
4. Sacred Poetry of the Seventeenth Century: Including the Whole of Giles by Giles Fletcher (1836)
"ON CHURCH contemners. \l THOSE church contemners, that can easily weigh The profit
of a sermon with a play ; Whose testy stomachs can ..."
5. Venice Under the Yoke of France and of Austria: With Memoirs of the Courts by Catherine Hyde GOVION BROGLIO SOLARI, Lady of rank (1824)
"... and other contemners of the Fine Arts A Comparison between the Society of
Friends and the Sons of Israel. I SHALL now offer a few words on some of the ..."
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