单词 | contemnor |
释义 | contemnorn. 1. A person who shows contempt or scorn for someone or something. Chiefly with of. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun] > contemptuous person scorner1303 despisera1340 contemnera1522 contemnor1535 contemptor1559 disdainer1580 misprizer1582 despiter1601 disesteemer1611 slighter1646 cheapener1846 1535–6 Act 27 Henry VIII c. 25 §10 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 560 A contemmour of the good order of the Common welth. a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) i. i. 29 Thalemut, a contemnor of whatsoever was divine, and the Image of all brutishnesse. 1661 W. Nicholson Εκθεσις Πιστεως ii. xxiv. 311 It must needs be a great horrour and confusion of face to..the ambitious, oppressing Grandee, that the contemnor of honor, poor Christ Jesus must be the Judge. 1782 Public Advertiser 13 Sept. He would join Issue with the Contemnors of his Authority. 1835 Hindoos (Libr. Entertaining Knowl.) II. xviii. 358 He incurred all the hatred which it was calculated to engender, without enjoying the satisfaction of revenging himself on his contemnors. 1845 G. Rogers Memoranda Experience, Labors, & Trav. Universalist Preacher ii. 32 I early became a contemnor of human authority in matters of religion, and I am so still. 1905 Bulletin Mar. 1051 The students of experiment and exact observation were rendering services to the human race which their contemnors could not approximate. 2008 Jrnl. Early Republic 28 495 This mastermind of democratic party organization did not slow down to consider the reasons why literary and benevolent societies were so dominated by..contemnors of democracy. 2. Law. A person who disobeys or disregards a law, court ruling, etc.; a person who is in contempt of court. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > disobedience to or contempt of court > one who rebelc1430 contemner1541 contemnor1569 1569 in S. Haynes Coll. State Papers Ld. Burghley (1740) 593 The Execution of Justice against..manifest Contemnors and Offenders ageynst our Lawes. 1602 in T. Rymer & R. Sanderson Fœdera (1715) XVI. 438/2 Such..Punishmente as by the Law may bee inflicted upon a Contemnor of her Majestie's Edicts and Proclamations. 1715 W. Bohun Cursus Cancellariæ xvi. 452 Where an Injunction is disobeyed, on Oath thereof Process of Contempt is to issue against the Contemnor,..till he yield Obedience. 1770 Another Let. to Mr. Almon 176 If the contemnor deny the contempt, the prosecutor may take out a commission to examine witnesses to prove it. 1834 M. Hoffman Treat. Pract. Court Chancery I. xiv. 437 The contemnor is not to examine witnesses himself, except by special order. 1889 Law Times 14 Dec. 115/2 The sequestration was merely a process in contempt, and did not affect the property of the contemnor. 1962 Michigan Law Rev. 61 318 Could the punished contemnor be re-punished if adamant in his disobedience to the same, though later, order? 2012 T. B. Courtney Law of Companies (ed. 3) vi. 329 In the case of an order of attachment, an alleged contemnor is brought before the court to answer his contempt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1535 |
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