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conˈtemptuousness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being contemptuous; scornfulness, disdainfulness.
1667G. C. in H. More Div. Dial. Pref. (1713) 4 A due and becoming Contemptuousness. 1752Johnson Rambler No. 206 ⁋12 Sometimes..the insolence of wealth breaks into contemptuousness. 1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. (1847) III. 266 His language is that of asperity and contemptuousness. |