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Definition of Contemning
1. contemn [v] - See also: contemn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contemning
Literary usage of Contemning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of the Queens of England: from the Norman conquest by Agnes Strickland (1848)
"... only from all spot, but from all suspicion, by avoiding all occasions of
idleness, and contemning vain pastimes." Fuller also, in his Church History, ..."
2. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1857)
"9. to the flames for contemning of his death, should ever come to live again,
and by believing in the death of Christ to be after saved. ..."
3. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"... the engrossed exemplification of the Act of Union, he returned it to the Clerk,
in the lace of Parliament with this despising and contemning remark, ..."
4. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"Cymbals, in measure ! far-off rumour rife, The divine wheels, (say Britons,) of
sea-god ! But all contemning ..."
5. The Works of William Robertson ...: To which is Prefixed, an Account of His by William Robertson, Dugald Stewart (1817)
"His son, more adventurous, or more inconsiderate, embarked eagerly in this
enterprise ; and contemning all the remonstrances of his most experienced ..."
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