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Definition of Despisers
1. despiser [n] - See also: despiser
Lexicographical Neighbors of Despisers
Literary usage of Despisers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All & None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1896)
"... OF THE despisers OF BODY " It is unto the despisers of body that I shall ...
despisers ..."
2. The Works of William Chillingworth by William Chillingworth (1838)
"... despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of
pleasures more than lovers of God ; having a form of godliness, but denying the ..."
3. Sermons by Edward Dorr Griffin, William Buell Sprague (1839)
"GOSPEL despisers PASSED BY AND THE HEATHEN TAKEN. MAT. vm. 11, 12. And I say unto
you, that many shall come from the east and west and shall sit down with ..."
4. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Léopold Delisle, Guizot (François) (1854)
"and honoured the gentle and submissive, as a father treats his children, but
applied the rod of correction to the reprobate and contumacious and despisers ..."
5. The Upward Leading: Pulpit Talks Under Various Auspices by James Henry Potts (1905)
"A NUT FOR despisers TO CRACK. "Be it known unto you, therefore, men and brethren,
that through this Man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins; ..."
6. Lectures on Scepticism: Delivered in Park Street Church, Boston, and in the by Lyman Beecher (1835)
"... UNHOLY, WITHOUT NATURAL AFFECTION, TRUCE- BREAKERS, FALSE ACCUSERS, INCONTINENT,
FIERCE, despisers OF THOSE THAT ARE GOOD, TRAITORS, HEADY, HIGH-MINDED, ..."
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