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contemn
(archaic) To disdain; to value at little or nothing; to treat or regard with contempt.
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The change which had so suddenly elevated Charles Stuart to the throne of his ancestors, and, from a poor, wandering, and powerless exile, made him one of Europe's most powerful monarchs, had taken the various courts where he had sojourned, neglected, if not contemned, completely by surprise.
I was perturbed by the suspicion that the anguish of love contemned was alloyed in her broken heart with the pangs, sordid to my young mind, of wounded vanity.
(law) To commit an offence of contempt, such as contempt of court; to unlawfully flout (e.g. a ruling).
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