单词 | contemptuousness |
释义 | contemptuousnessn. The quality or condition of being contemptuous; scorn, disdain. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptuous deignoushedec1330 despitefulness1535 scornfulness1535 disdainfulness1548 contemptuousness1574 despisableness1613 despisingness1625 slightingness1683 contemptibility?1794 sneerfulness1873 sniffiness1927 snottiness1973 dismissiveness1980 1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job xlv. 214/2 Behold whereof commeth the contemptuousnesse of the vnbeleeuers. 1622 T. Vicars tr. B. Keckermann Ουρανογνωσια 35 The third sinne is contemptuousnesse, and disobedience, for we ought to obey God in all his commands. 1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 206. ⁋12 Sometimes..the insolence of wealth breaks into contemptuousness. 1958 N. Peffer Far East xxxvii. 360 He scarcely deserved the contemptuousness with which the Japanese treated him. 2016 Evening Gaz. (Middlesbrough) (Nexis) 1 Dec. (Features section) 39 Politicians' contemptuousness towards the electorate knows no bounds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1574 |
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