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Definition of Despising
1. Noun. A feeling of scornful hatred.
Definition of Despising
1. Verb. (present participle of despise) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Despising
1. despise [v] - See also: despise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Despising
Literary usage of Despising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1837)
"All base imitations of nature despising, And free from the chains of experience
and truth, Unawed by the shams of our fathers' devising, They whirl in the ..."
2. Barbizon Days: Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Barye by Charles Sprague Smith (1902)
"... despising his enemies to the point of forgetting them, very charitable toward
others and severe toward himself, behold him ! ..."
3. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"... he returned it to the Clerk, in the lace of Parliament with this despising
and contemning remark, " Now there's ane end of ane old song. ..."
4. The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson ... Captain by Thomas Hutchinson, Peter Orlando Hutchinson (1884)
"She committed the error of despising her enemy, and she forgot that her disobedient
child had grown to man's estate. The event proved it. ..."
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