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contemptibility|kənˌtɛm(p)tɪˈbɪlɪtɪ|
[ad. L. contemptibilitās, f. contemptibil-is: see -ity.]
1. The quality or fact of being contemptible; contemptibleness; an instance of this.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xi. (1632) 668 The contemptibility and vanity of this effeminate argument. 1793Burns Let. to G. Thomson July, The old ballad..is silly, to contemptibility. 1818Coleridge in Rem. (1836) I. 140 In the voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag he displays the littleness and moral contemptibility of human nature. 1873Masson Drumm. of Hawth. vii. 138 How full of..degradations, shames, contemptibilities, and meannesses.
†2. Contemptuousness. Obs.
1794J. Williams [A. Pasquin] Cab. Misc. Ded. 7 The contemptibility and malignancy of the Reviewers can do but a small injury to any author of merit. |