Definitions for contemn
kənˈtɛmcon·temn

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. contemn, despise, scorn, disdainverb

   look down on with disdain

   "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately"

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1. contemnverb

   To disdain; to value at little or nothing; to treat or regard with contempt.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To CONTEMNverb

   To despise; to scorn; to slight; to disregard; to neglect; to defy.

   Etymology: contemno, Latin.

   Yet better thus, and known to be contemned,
   Than still contemned and flattered. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   Pygmalion then the Tyrian sceptre sway’d;
   One who contemn’d divine and human laws,
   Then strife ensu’d. John Dryden, Virgil’s Æneid.

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1. contemn

   Contempt is a pattern of attitudes and behaviour, often towards an individual or a group, but sometimes towards an ideology, which has the characteristics of disgust and anger.The word originated in 1393 in Old French contempt, contemps, from the Latin word contemptus meaning "scorn". It is the past participle of contemnere and from con- intensive prefix + temnere "to slight, scorn". Contemptuous appeared in 1529.It is classified among Paul Ekman's seven basic emotions of contempt, anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise. Robert C. Solomon places contempt on the same continuum as resentment and anger, and he argues that the differences between the three are that resentment is anger directed towards a higher-status individual; anger is directed towards an equal-status individual; and contempt is anger directed towards a lower-status individual.

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1. contemn

   To contemn means to treat or regard with extreme disrespect, disdain, scorn, or contempt.

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1. Contemnverb

   to view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn

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1. Contemn

   kon-tem′, v.t. to despise: to neglect, to disregard.—n. Contem′ner. [Fr.,—L. contemnĕre, -temptum, to value little—con, inten., temnĕre, to slight.]

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of contemn in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of contemn in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=contemn
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Contemn
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=contemn
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemn
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contemn
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=contemn