单词 | contemning |
释义 | contemningn. The action of contemn v. (in various senses); an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun] > action of holding in contempt indignationc1374 contemning1457 scorninga1475 vilipensionc1485 disprizing1500 despitinga1529 vilipending1566 disesteeming1605 floccinaucinihilipilification1741 1457 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Brechinensis (1856) I. 183 In gret lychtleing and contempinge of justice and law. 1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) lxxxii. sig. T.iv (heading) Of the grete contempnynge and dyspraysynge of god. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 14v To be lustie in contemning of others. 1623 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VII. O.T. xix. 243 It is no contemning of a foiled enemy. a1631 J. Eaton Honey-combe Free Justific. (1642) 172 Full of..whisperings, evill speakings, and manifold breakings, or rather flat contemnings of the ninth commandement. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. i. i. 4 His contemning of..them as common and vulgar. View more context for this quotation 1826 Ohio Repository 29 June An expression of contempt for an old newspaper is..not more rational than would be the contemning of Hume's England, because many years have elapsed since it was written. 1888 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Aug. 453/2 An austere contemning of this world [was] the surest passport to the next. 1956 Explicator 15 The poem is a lyric utterance, a Keatsian contemning of mortal limitations. 2016 G. N. Goodman Physical, Human, & Moral Geographies of Judaea in Tacitus’s Histories & Josephus (M.A. thesis, Univ. of Kansas) 51 After the contemning of the gods.., the final precept taught to the convert to Judaism, argues Tacitus, is to hold parents, children, and siblings as worthless. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). contemningadj. That displays or expresses contempt towards a person or thing; contemptuous; scornful. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [adjective] > contemptuous ollinga1200 hokerfula1275 scorningc1325 deignousc1330 despitousa1340 disdainousc1374 lightlya1400 scornfula1400 despiteous14.. endeignousc1400 hathlya1425 spitefulc1440 despitefula1450 fastidious?a1475 contemptuous1534 disdainfula1542 huff-nosed1542 lightliful1552 dainful1577 contemptible1594 sdeignful1596 disdained1598 contemptful1604 contemning1605 overlookinga1619 slight1632 slightinga1637 slightya1640 despisable1644 despicable1662 sneering1692 scornful1704 saucy1716 vilipendinga1722 fastidiose1730 unappreciating1833 scorny1836 high-sniffing1837 sniffy1871 sneery1872 sneerful1880 pejorativea1888 dismissive1930 sniffish1933 fuck you1962 1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 49 Philosophers which prefixde their names before their Treatises of contemning glorie. 1657 W. Stuart Presbyteries Triall v. 39 Their proud contemning words, vttered publlckly agrinst [sic] persons of greatest quality, are well enough-knowen. 1709 Brit. Apollo: Supernumerary Paper Apr. And with Contemning Silence pass me by. 1772 Lady's Mag. Jan. 37/2 By all despis'd, from shame to shame she's hurl'd, Amidst the scorns of a contemning world. 1847 Metrop. Mag. Jan. 37 Nought's too mean for God's peculiar care, And nought's too great for his contemning ban. 1905 Washington Post 8 Aug. 6/1 When such a man..modestly faces a contemning world and hands out..the results of his years of toil and privation. 1981 W. M. Murphy Parnell Myth & Irish Politics (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Chicago) v. 114 In this passage Parnell's contemning attitude is excessively independent (i.e., aloof and arrogant). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1457adj.1605 |
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