Definition of Despiser

1. n. One who despises; a contemner; a scorner.

Definition of Despiser

1. Noun. One who despises. ¹

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Definition of Despiser

1. one that despises [n -S] - See also: despises

Lexicographical Neighbors of Despiser

despights
despinning
despiramine
despiritualize
despiritualized
despiritualizes
despisable
despisableness
despisal
despisals
despise
despised
despisedness
despiser (current term)
despisers
despises
despisest
despiseth
despising
despisingly
despisingness
despite
despited
despiteful
despitefully
despitefulness
despiteous
despiteously

Literary usage of Despiser

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... a crusher and despiser of the Romans," re- [«rts the chronicler Matthew Paris. He was buried with great pomp at Lincoln, the archbishop of Canterbury ..."

2. Women Artists in All Ages and Countries by Elizabeth Fries Ellet (1859)
"The churlish Guercino a despiser of Women.—The Cardinal's Niece and Heiress.—Her great Paintings.—Founds a Cloister. —Artemisia Gentileschi, a Pupil of ..."

3. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1843)
"The man whose supercilious scepticism thus makes the differences of his fellows the ground of his theory, is the true despiser of his race. ..."

4. The Works by John Howe, Edmund Calamy (1835)
"When it is looked upon as no fashionable thing to be a despiser of God and heaven, and to breathe out contempt of the Divine power, that gave us breath. ..."

5. A Universal Biography: Containing Interesting Accounts, Critical and by John Platts (1826)
"... that neither his life nor his writings 'were so absurd or blasphemous as to entitle him to the character of a despiser of God and religion. ..."

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