Usage examples (26)

• We also need to recognize that there is a dangerous boldness of great consequence in despising whatever we cannot understand.
• This shall abundantly satisfy all the hearty well-wishers to God's interest, who will be glad to see themselves mistaken in despising the day of small things.
• That cut and paste of Shakespeare earlier should have read 'despising'.
• Mere "despising" doesn't express the Greek roots of this word, which include the word for