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Definition of Contemns
1. contemn [v] - See also: contemn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contemns
Literary usage of Contemns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior by Robert Burton (1838)
"... asper- IUT, so love triumphs, contemns, insults, over death itself. Thirteen •per
yong men lost their lives for that fair ..."
2. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"... he so much contemns Mr. Montagu, as my Lord knows himself very secure against
any thing the fool can do; ..."
3. The History of Spain and Portugal from B.C. 1000 to A.D. 1814 by M. M. Busk (1833)
"... other authors concern themselves chiefly with the regular armies ; and Napier
contemns the insurgents, perhaps, as unreasonably as Southey admires them. ..."
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1838)
"... and yet to hope that he should save him ; and, when he voluntarily neglects
his own safety, and contemns the means, to think to be delivered by another. ..."
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