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Definition of Despisal
1. Noun. A feeling of scornful hatred.
Definition of Despisal
1. n. A despising; contempt.
Definition of Despisal
1. Noun. contempt; scornful hatred ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Despisal
1. intense dislike [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Despisal
Literary usage of Despisal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reason and Revelation: Being an Examination Into the Nature and Contents of by William Horne (1876)
"I will not deny that one fundamental thought of Christ's teaching is the despisal
of the abundance of things ono possesses as compared with, what He calls, ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1900)
"Professor del Rio protests against the injustice of those governments that, by
a quasi-despisal of veterinary science, create an anti-scientific ..."
3. Scribners Monthly (1878)
"... more of such criticism and despisal as Chns- tianity is getting nowadays, the
world will awake io the fact that there is something in it, after all. ..."
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