How To Use Contemn In A Sentence
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And here's Laurence Binyon's poem in full, and as the Tinker reminded me over our coffee and silence this morning it is "contemn" not "condemn".
At the eleventh Hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month
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Who is more contemned than he who clings stubbornly to old moral insights?
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Indeed, in one particular 'sutra' the Buddha contemns such a belief as deleterious to the development of man's spiritual understanding.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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And here he must make a speech for himself and his wife, praising their destiny, their marriage, their son, their daughter-inlaw, their grandchildren, their manifold causes of gratitude: surely the most innocent speech, the old, sharp contemner of his innocence now watching him with eyes of admiration.
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
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The brutally healthy boy contemns the female sex because he sees it incapable of his own athletic sports, but Godwin was one of those upon whose awaking intellect is forced a perception of the brain-defect so general in women when they are taught few of life's graces and none of its serious concerns, -- their paltry prepossessions, their vulgar sequaciousness, their invincible ignorance, their absorption in a petty self.
Born in Exile
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He was superior to all those passions and affections which attend vulgar minds, and was guilty of no other ambition than of knowledge, and to be reputed a lover of all good men; and that made him too much a contemner of those arts, which must be indulged in the transactions of human affairs ....
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
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If Caleb could have concentrated all the lightnings of aristocracy in his eye, to have struck dead this contemner of allegiance and privilege, he would have launched them at his head, without respect to the consequences.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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With the party and judge at loggerheads over, say, the availability of funds, it is often the contemnor who loses, forced to remain behind bars at the mercy of a skeptical judge.
No Charge: In Civil-Contempt Cases, Jail Time Can Stretch On for Years
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I then tooke one of them, and thrust him into the smoke, and willed one of my company to tread out the fire, and to spurne it into the sea, which was done to shew them that we did contemne their sorcery.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.
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[34] See Matthiæ, who explains it: "_me et supplicem_, qui mortem deprecetur, _et fortem_, qui mortem contemnat, _dicere licet_.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
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Yet the King hated Charles even more than he contemned him, and his scorn and hatred were the more intense, that they were mingled with fear; for he know that the onset of the mad bull, to whom he likened the Duke of Burgundy, must ever be formidable, though the animal makes it with shut eyes.
Quentin Durward
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While it may be that a person's contemning an order made in the main action would be strong evidence of deliberate frustration, it does not automatically follow that it is.
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Louis XI, an habitual derider of whatever did not promise real power or substantial advantage, was in especial a professed contemner of heralds and heraldry, “red, blue, and green, with all their trumpery,” to which the pride of his rival Charles, which was of a very different kind, attached no small degree of ceremonious importance.
Quentin Durward
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But there must be an opportunity to purge the contempt, allowing the contemnor to perform some affirmative complying act.
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Or, What if the sword contemn even the rod? that is, what if this sword make the former rods, as that or Sennacherib, to be contemned as nothing to this?
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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When he balks, she reminds him that ‘No Lover should his Mistriss Pray'rs withstand: / Yet you contemn my absolute Command ’.
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Nicias, detecting the design, and seeing that his person was secretly kept in watch, proceeded to speak irreligiously to the vulgar of the Mothers, and showed many signs of disrespect, as if he denied and contemned the received opinion of the presence of those goddesses; his enemies the while rejoicing, that he, of his own accord, sought the destruction hanging over his head.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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And viciously contemning the Church more often than not entails a disdainful sidelong glance at the benighted faithful who persist in allegiance to her.
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Wickleuists, a despiser of images, a contemner of canons, and a scorner of the sacraments, ended his daies (as it was reported) without the
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
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These congelations, through their weakness, are unable to obtain in Mercury, and therefore, on that account, he altogether contemns them.
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And how is the wise man a contemner of wealth, who upon a contract delivers virtue for money, and if he has not delivered it, yet requires his reward, as having done what is in him?
Essays and Miscellanies
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The contemners of the additional act, deaf to the voice of reason, would judge of it only from its title; and as this title displeased and alarmed them, they persisted in blackening and condemning the work on the score of its name, according to the vulgar proverb, _Give a dog a bad name, and hang him_.
Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II
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'Tis the common humour of them all, to contemn death, to wish for death, to confront death in this case, Quippe queis nec fera, nec ignis, neque praecipitium, nec fretum, nec ensis, neque laqueus gravia videntur; 'Tis their desire (saith Tyrius) to die.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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“Alas! how soon our best resolutions pass away! — he was in a blessed frame for departure but now, and in two minutes he has become a contemner of authorities.”
Quentin Durward
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Quis dicere audeat ut vestimentum cum debere contemni?
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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The ability of judges to jail parents without a trial is possible because failure to pay child support is usually handled as a civil matter, meaning that the non-custodial parent - or the "contemnor" in legal terms - is found guilty of contempt of court and ordered to appear at a hearing.
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The judgment has also not found any motive on the part of the contemners to threaten the Judges.
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Judges are enjoined to extend to an alleged contemner the same rights accorded to an accused.
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There he was! to her idea, the embodied evil genius of her family! the sullen apostate from the finer part of love -- the victim of satiety, (as rumour said,) the selfish contemner of women's better feelings!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
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As ye deal with my contemners, So with you my grace shall deal
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This distinction slavery contemns, disannuls, and tramples under foot.
The Light and Truth of Slavery. Aaron's HistoryThe Light and Truth of Slavery. Aaron's History
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Quotquot hos aspernantur, et ab his sese segregant, religionem veram contemnunt, urgendique sunt a pastoribus et piis magistratibus, ne contumacius se segregare, et coetus sacros aversari pergant.
The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
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Louis XI, an habitual derider of whatever did not promise real power or substantial advantage, was in especial a professed contemner of heralds and heraldry, “red, blue, and green, with all their trumpery,” to which the pride of his rival Charles, which was of a very different kind, attached no small degree of ceremonious importance.
Quentin Durward
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And so by means of that poetic order, which is the Providence of this piece, and that design which 'tunes the harmony of it,' it is a duke on whom that low correction, 'such as basest and most contemned wretches are punished with,' is exhibited, in spite of his indignant protest.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
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The Mexican republic, declared Castillo, had been “despoiled, outraged, contemned” by the United States.
A Country of Vast Designs
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What if the sword contemn the tribe or sceptre? namely, that of Judah and the house of David (so some think Shebet here signifies); what if it should aim at the ruin of our government?
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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We dread both to be contemptible and to be contemned.
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_He that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little_.
Daily Strength for Daily Needs
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Howsoever the best way is to contemn it, which [6214] Henry II. king of France advised a courtier of his, jealous of his wife, and complaining of her unchasteness, to reject it, and comfort himself; for he that suspects his wife's incontinency, and fears the Pope's curse, shall never live a merry hour, or sleep a quiet night: no remedy but patience.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The civil power was to be the secular arm, the instrument, of the Kirk, and was required to inflict the penalties which the preacher imposed on such as contemned the censure and discipline of the Church.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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A "contemnor" is entitled to apply to court and be heard
McGarr Solicitors - Dublin Solicitors Ireland
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Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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Neque enim uile quiddam contemnendumque est quod adipisci omnium fere mortalium laborat intentio.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
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So saying, the indignant Sage nevertheless plunged the contemned pieces of gold into a large pouch which he wore at his girdle, which Toinette, and other abettors of lavish expense, generally contrived to empty fully faster than the philosopher, with all his art, could find the means of filling.
Quentin Durward
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I see no principled distinction between a SCOTUS ruling — which is a law — and a statute directing the executive branch to act against a contemnor.
The Volokh Conspiracy » May Congress Order the Justice Department To Prosecute People Who the Justice Department Firmly Believes are Innocent?
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IV. i.1 (427,1) Yet better thus, and known to be contemn'd] The meaning is, _'Tis better_ to be _thus contemned, and_ known _to yourself_ to be contemned.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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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.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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a second; but, by instructing them in the laws of military discipline with the same care and exactness a priest would use in teaching ceremonies and dreadful mysteries, and by severity to such as transgressed and contemned those laws, he maintained his country in its former greatness, esteeming victory over enemies itself but as an accessory to the proper training and disciplining of the citizens.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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As the barking of a dog, I securely contemn those malicious and scurrile obloquies, flouts, calumnies of railers and detractors; I scorn the rest.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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David: Well I understand that, but the question seems premised on the position that Congress forcing the DOJ to prosecute someone is the only way for congress to have some it deems a contemnor held in contempt.
The Volokh Conspiracy » May Congress Order the Justice Department To Prosecute People Who the Justice Department Firmly Believes are Innocent?
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Si vis ditari, contemne divitias; that's true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches, non habere, sed non indigere, vera abundantia: 'tis more glory to contemn, than to possess; et nihil agere, est deorum, and to want nothing is divine.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Now, Arizona courts must hold hearings every 35 days for those held in civil contempt on family-law issues, and judges must find that a contemnor has the ability to comply with the order.
No Charge: In Civil-Contempt Cases, Jail Time Can Stretch On for Years
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Distress, being contemned by his Servants, abhorr'd by his People, and the
The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen
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An agreement between God and Man, about the way of obtaining consummate happiness, including a commination of eternal destruction, with which the contemner of the happiness, offered in that way, is to be punished.
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So as it is not possible but this quality of knowledge must fall under popular contempt, the people being apt to contemn truths upon occasion of controversies and altercations, and to think they are all out of their way which never meet; and when they see such digladiation about subtleties, and matters of no use or moment, they easily fall upon that judgment of Dionysius of Syracusa, Verba ista sunt senum otiosorum.
The Advancement of Learning
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So, disobedience alone will not make the alleged contemner liable for contempt.
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Because it is a trial," saith he, "and what if the sword contemn even the rod?
The Sermons of John Owen
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In Wednesday's order, the Bench said that since the incident had taken place in full public view inside the court hall of the Supreme Court and since the contemnor did not show any remorse and had admitted to her action, the procedure adopted by Justice Pasayat for punishing her and the other contemnors could not be faulted.
The Hindu - Front Page
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My warning he altogether contemned — my example he neglected to follow, and fell into the snare which was spread, as it were, before his very eyes.
Count Robert of Paris
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December a list of the subscriptions was called for, and on the 16th they resolved, that if any lord, spiritual or temporal, should attempt to obtain a charter to erect a bank, "he should be deemed a contemnor of the authority of that house, and a betrayer of the liberty of his country.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
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The offending publication was not made by the contemners in ignorance of the consequences.
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It mattered not that a corporate contemnor could not be committed to prison.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet this condition is always annexed to the confederation, that if man be unmindful of the covenant and a contemner of its pleasant rule, he may always be impelled or governed by that domination which is really lordly, strict and rigid, and into which, he who refuses to obey the other [species of rule], justly falls.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
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I envy those stolid people who can talk so contemptuously of frailty -- I mean I envy them their self-mastery; I quite understand the temperament of those who can be content with a slight exhilaration, and who fiercely contemn the crackbrain who does not know when to stop.
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour
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Surely nothing else but a carelesse licentiousnesse to deride and contemne a poore and vnknowen Nation, and such other like vices.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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True servant both of Church and State, he saw that there was no consistent course for him but to consign the enemy of royalty and the contemner of sacred monuments to the abominable Scarlet
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
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On fire when reflecting on the losses she had sustained, mourning over friends slain and kingdoms lost, the proudest and most passionate of princesses was ill suited to dwell with the gayest and best-humored of sovereigns, whose pursuits she contemned, and whose lightness of temper, for finding comfort in such trifles, she could not forgive.
Anne of Geierstein
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The contemnor attended the hearing of the motion to commit, at which he was represented.
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Thou art humble as thou art, it may be; hadst thou been preferred, thou wouldst have forgotten God and thyself, insulted over others, contemned thy friends, [3973] been a block, a tyrant, or a demigod, sequiturque superbia formam: [3974] Therefore, saith
Anatomy of Melancholy