contemn

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contemn englannista suomeksi

To disdain; to value at little or nothing; to treat or regard with contempt.
(quote-book)|author=(w) to (w)|location=London|publisher=A.G. and F. P.|year=c. 1620s|year_published=1680|chapter=The Preface|page=A3, verso|passage=''The subject of the following History ... is the ''unhappy'' Lives, and ''untimely'' Deaths, of that Unfortunate ''English'' King ''Edward'' the Second, and his two Favourites ''Gaveston'' and ''Spencer''; for his immoderate love to whom, (Says Dr. ''Heylin'') he was ''hated'' by the Nobles, and ''contemned'' by the Commons.''
(RQ:Landon Francesca Carrara)
(quote-book)|title=(w)|chapter=Moon and Sixpence/Chapter XI|11|passage=I was perturbed by the suspicion that the anguish of love contemned was alloyed in her broken heart with the pangs, sordid to my young mind, of wounded vanity.
To commit an offence of contempt, such as of court; to unlawfully flout (e.g. a ruling).