despising

When he visiteth me for despising _their cause_, what shall I answer him for _despising mine_?

Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott

He shook his head, angry with himself that he should feel shame at the confession when his savage reasoning told him he was right in despising work.

THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY 2010

We also need to recognize that there is a dangerous boldness of great consequence in despising whatever we cannot understand.

True or False? « So Many Books 2004

No longer will he take his daily enjoyment in despising the wife of his bosom – because nature has decreed that she shall be the wife of his bosom and not the husband of some one else's.

Marriage as a Trade 1909

They still fondled her with a child-like simplicity – these her almost grown-up sons; who had never been sent to school for a day, and had never learned from other sons of far different mothers, that a young man's chief manliness ought to consist in despising the tender charities of home.

John Halifax, Gentleman 1897

It is therefore not me, but Christ, whom ye wrong: it is His patience that ye try in despising my admonitions, and derogating from my authority [Calvin].

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

My dear Ida, I wish to encourage no young lady of the hoydenish age of thirteen, in despising nice dressing and pretty looks and manners; or in neglecting to pick up any little hints which she may glean in such things from older friends.

Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances 1869

This shall abundantly satisfy all the hearty well-wishers to God's interest, who will be glad to see themselves mistaken in despising the day of small things.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

That cut and paste of Shakespeare earlier should have read 'despising'.

Why Science Fiction Authors Can't Win Lou Anders 2009

The law prohibits murder and hate speech, but also harder-to-define offenses such as "despising" or "stirring up ill feelings."

Remembering Horrors in Rwanda 2010