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单词 contemn
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contemnv.

Brit. /kənˈtɛm/, U.S. /kənˈtɛm/
Forms:

α. late Middle English cotempne, late Middle English–1500s contempne, 1500s–1700s contemne, 1600s– contemn.

β. late Middle English contempe, 1500s contempt (past participle); Scottish pre-1700 ̀contempe, pre-1700 contemp.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French contemner; Latin contemnere.
Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French contempner, Middle French contemner (French (now rare) contemner ) to regard or treat (a person or thing) with contempt (c1350), to show contemptuous disregard for (an offer, order, request, etc.) (late 14th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin contempnere, contemnere to regard with contempt, to despise, to treat with contempt, to scorn, to disregard, to avoid < con- con- prefix + temnere to scorn, despise, of uncertain origin; perhaps < the same Indo-European base as ancient Greek τέμνειν to cut, Old Russian tjati to beat, Polish ciąć to cut, Lithuanian tinti to sharpen by hammering. Compare later contempt v.
1.
a. transitive. To regard or treat (a person or thing) with contempt; to reject (a person or thing considered unworthy or undesirable); to scorn, disdain.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)]
forhowc900
overhowOE
withhuheOE
forhecchec1230
scorna1275
despise1297
spise13..
to set at a pease, at a pie's heel, at a pin's fee1303
to hold, have scorn at, ofc1320
to think scorn ofc1320
to set short by1377
to tell short of1377
to set naught or nought (nothing, not anything) by1390
spitea1400
contemnc1425
nought1440
overlooka1450
mainprizec1450
lightly1451
vilipendc1470
indeign1483
misprize1483
dain?1518
to look down on (also upon)1539
floccipend1548
contempta1555
to take scorn ata1566
embase1577
sdeign1590
disesteem1594
vilify1599
to set lightly, coldly1604
disrepute1611
to hold cheapa1616
avile1616
floccify1623
meprize1633
to think (also believe, etc.) meanly of1642
publican1648
naucify1653
disesteem1659
invalue1673
to set light, at light1718
sneeze1806
sniff1837
derry1896
to hold no brief for1918
c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 45 In whom [sc. God] who that trustith ys nat confowndid, and who that callith hym in-to hymself is not cotempnyd.
1491 Compend. Abstr. Holy Rule Saynte Benet sig. avv in Bk. Diuerse Ghostly Maters (Caxton) Beringe in your mynde..how they þt contempnyth god & hys preceptes or the rule shal goo to hell.
1516 Lyfe St. Birgette in Kalendre Newe Legende Eng. (Pynson) f. cxxi They that do contempne me and forgette my charyte they do this to me.
1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. Ep. Ded. sig. *ijv Yea all men so allowed labours, and contemned idlenes, that immediatly all the worlde flowed with liberall artes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. iv. 127 I haue done pennance for contemning Loue. View more context for this quotation
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. vi. 24 Those things which we neither Desire, nor Hate, we are said to Contemne.
1712 R. Blackmore Creation vii. 352 How much the Judge, who does in Heav'n preside, Remocks the Scoffer, and contemns his Pride!
1781 R. B. Sheridan Trip to Scarborough ii. i. 39 I did not start at his addresses, as when they came from one whom I contemned.
1827 A. Sutherland Tales of Pilgrim (ed. 2) 181 The scorn with which his playmates..had contemned him for the baseness of his birth.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iv. xxxiii. 326 It lay in Deronda's nature usually to contemn the feeble.
1922 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 12 180 They contemn the visual-auditory intellect in much the same way that many intellectuals contemn the kinaesthetic variety.
1987 F. X. Winters in J. W. Bernauer Amor Mundi 214 Machiavelli repudiated moral criteria in politics because morality contemns recognition while politics is defined as the search for glory.
2006 J. Carey What Good are Arts? vi. 193 In Austen's world some people..truly are contemptible, and it is right to contemn them.
b. transitive. With infinitive as object. To refuse (to do something regarded as unworthy of one's effort, consideration, etc.); to disdain or scorn (to do something). Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > disdain to do something
disdainc1380
to tell scorn1477
contemn1510
to think (it) scornc1515
to take scorn1575
scorn1605
coya1616
1510 A. Chertsey tr. Floure Commaundementes of God (de Worde) ii. lxiii. f. cliiiv/2 He contempned to accomplysshe his promesse and vowe.
1553 J. Hooper Homelye to be read in Tyme of Pestylence sig. B.iiij Caius his neuewe contempned to honor the liuing god.
1609 Bible (Douay) I. Dan. xiv. 12 A stubbourne and froward sonne, that..contemneth to be obedient.
1622 G. Wither Faire-virtue sig. N4 Some..who do not contemne In his retyred walkes, to visit him.
1731 T. Hearne Vindic. 60 He hath contemned to obey as a Christian,..Separating himself from the Church.
1812 Crit. Rev. Jan. 3 Contemning to answer his objectors.
1845 tr. St. Gregory Morals on Bk. of Job II. iv. xx. 459 She [sc. the Holy Church]..contemns to number them among the true Fathers.
1938 China Forum 10 Sept. 293/1 What is the glory of a victory gained through means the whole world contemns to use?
2. transitive. To show contemptuous disregard for (an order, request, etc.); to be in contempt of (a law, court of law, etc.).In quot. 1609 intransitive: to show contemptuous disobedience.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > treat with contempt > laws or orders
contemn1457
society > authority > lack of subjection > refuse to submit to [verb (transitive)] > set aside authority > contemptuously
contemn1457
conculcate1570
1457 [implied in: 1457 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Brechinensis (1856) I. 183 In gret lychtleing and contempinge of justice and law. (at contemning n.)].
1484 Rolls of Parl.: Richard III (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1484 §1. m. 3 The ordre of all poletique rule was perverted, the lawes..broken, subverted and contempned.
1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 41v His benefites if we forget, or do contemne his lawe.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Nov. 48 Let not my small demaund be so contempt.
1609 Bible (Douay) I. Bel & Dragon i. 12 And they contemned [L. contemnebant autem], because they had made vnder the table a secrete entrance [etc.].
c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 239 Mr. Cooper contemn'd my Lord's Order, and would not obey it.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. 262 Some rustic wretch, who liv'd in heav'n's despight, Contemning laws, and trampling on the right.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. ix. 689 They..contemned and violated the engagement of treaties.
1881 Christian Monthly & Family Treasury Jan. 11/2 The immediate cause of his imprisonment was..for contemning the authority of the judge of one of Her Majesty's courts.
1908 Amer. Law Rev. Sept. 700 Should not the Court which has been contemned, at least be assisted by a jury in the determination of the facts?
2013 Statesman (Pakistan) (Nexis) 13 Oct. The petition was filed in the high court on Saturday, citing the premier had contemned the judiciary.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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