The glory of Moab shall be contemned, that is, it shall be contemptible, when all those things they have gloried in shall come to nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
Workers of the land, at times contemned, dismissed as simpletons. From Wordnik.com. [Rhyme and Reason Volume Two] Reference
But formal ingratitude is when a favor is actually contemned, and this is. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
The fruits do sufficiently manifest how much this duty is contemned by them. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
Beowulf, and how he was contemned in his youth, and is now grown so renowned. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
A mere contempt of himself, the self that contemned was a coward with the self it contemned!. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, December 16, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
Foster's degradation acceded, though in his better moments he contemned his employer and himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Humility was her darling virtue; and her greatest delight seemed to be in seeing herself contemned. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
They were poor, and of no reputation in the world; which made them contemned by all sorts of person. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
We add four examples -- two to be admired, and two to be contemned, in the fulfilment of our critique. From Wordnik.com. [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference
And this manner of speech is always contemned, with these words, for, because, and such other confirmatiues. From Wordnik.com. [The Arte of English Poesie] Reference
The romances, the tales, the stories, the novels were contemned more and more, from the first of them to the last. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference
It will not make a good leading article; but the leading article which subserves equal uses is not to be contemned. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
But ordinarily among men in general, in every age, the state of single life has been looked down upon and contemned. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
The character of the people of Nazareth was such that they were proverbially despised and contemned, Joh 1: 46; 7: 52. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
But the lustre of that exaggerated glow, and the booming concord of fancied spirit-voices were all contemned as trifles. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
For the Lord had humbled Juda because of Achaz the king of Juda, for he had stripped it of help, and had contemned the Lord. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 14: 2 Paralipomenon The Challoner Revision] Reference
How approaches he the bar of that awful Judge, whose commands he has set at nought, and whose power he has so often contemned?. From Wordnik.com. [The Garies and Their Friends] Reference
Northern man is sure to find his principles despised, his people contemned, and himself subjected to much disagreeable contumely. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
My Lordis, I find that Fasting is commended in the Scripture; tharefor I war a sclanderar of the Gospell, yf I contemned fasting. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
For he hath contemned the word of the Lord, and made void his precept: therefore shall he be destroyed, and shall bear his iniquity. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 04: Numbers The Challoner Revision] Reference
What evidence have you that you have a love to these things, that can hear them reproached, scorned, contemned, and never be moved at it?. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
Men, utterly forsaken by friends -- contemned, derided, proscribed, persecuted -- have stood by their convictions with joyful heroism and calm content. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Take notice of him, and hear his voice, and do not think him one to be contemned: for he will not forgive when thou hast sinned, and my name is in him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision] Reference
No sooner was the intelligence brought to Nackee Khan than he put himself at the head of his troops, and set forward to revenge his contemned authority. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Enterprise and Adventure Being an Excitement to Reading. for Young People. a New and Condensed Edition.] Reference
Spaniards not merely contemned, but persecuted with the fiercest bigotry, all that was left in the peninsula of the genius and learning of their predecessors. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844] Reference
Look upon the two parties that are in the world; -- the one great, wise, glorious, powerful, and at liberty; the other poor, despised, contemned all the world over. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
In their mode of life, they sought comfort, not "appearances;" and many things which their more sophisticated descendants deem necessaries, they contemned as luxuries. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
King of the Lacedemonians, defendyng the narow straights of the cytie Thermopolie with fower thousand men against the mightie and huge armie of Xerxes, for Xerxes contemned. From Wordnik.com. [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference
Spring wheat patents rapidly rose to the first place in the market, and winter wheat millers waked up to find their vantage ground occupied by their hitherto contemned rivals. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference
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