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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contemn.

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contemn +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • [6793] No man sins against the Holy Ghost, but he that wilfully and finally renounceth Christ, and contemneth him and his word to the last, without which there is no salvation, from which grievous sin, God of his infinite mercy deliver us.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • O my soul, I taught thee the contempt which doth not come like worm – eating, the great, the loving contempt, which loveth most where it contemneth most.

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished: it is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.

    Ezekiel 21. 1999

  • But hate and punish those who introduce foreign religions; not only for the god's sake -- whom he who contemneth will regard nothing else

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • A workman that is a drunkard shall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things, shall fall by little and little.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • In enumerating the qualifications of such person, the psalmist says: 'He that contemneth the evil man, but he honoreth them that fear the Lord,'

    Doctor Jones' Picnic

  • If it falls very frequently into venial sin, it will fall very soon into mortal sin also; for the Holy Scripture says that he that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little.

    Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine Thomas L. Kinkead

  • The wicked man, when he is come into the depths of sins, contemneth: but ignominy and reproach follow him.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

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