contemnv.

Brit.

/kənˈtɛm/, U.S.

/kənˈtɛm/

Forms:

α. late Middle English cotempne, late Middle English–1500s contempne, 1500s–1700s contemne, 1600s– contemn.

β. late Middle English contempe, 1500s contempt (past participle); Scottish pre-1700 ̀contempe, pre-1700 contemp.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French contemner; Latin contemnere.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French contempner, Middle French contemner (French (now rare) contemner ) to regard or treat (a person or thing) with contempt (c1350), to show contemptuous disregard for (an offer, order, request, etc.) (late 14th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin contempnere, contemnere to regard with contempt, to despise, to treat with contempt, to scorn, to disregard, to avoid < con- con- prefix + temnere to scorn, despise, of uncertain origin; perhaps < the same Indo-European base as ancient Greek τέμνειν to cut, Old Russian tjati to beat, Polish ciąć to cut, Lithuanian tinti to sharpen by hammering. Compare later contempt v.

a. transitive. To regard or treat (a person or thing) with contempt; to reject (a person or thing considered unworthy or undesirable); to scorn, disdain.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)]

forhowc900

overhowOE

withhuheOE

forhecchec1230

scorna1275

despise1297

spise13..

to set at a pease, at a pie's heel, at a pin's fee1303

to hold, have scorn at, ofc1320

to think scorn ofc1320

to set short by1377

to tell short of1377

to set naught or nought (nothing, not anything) by1390

spitea1400

contemnc1425

nought1440

overlooka1450

mainprizec1450

lightly1451

vilipendc1470

indeign1483

misprize1483

dain?1518

to look down on (also upon)1539

floccipend1548

contempta1555

to take scorn ata1566

embase1577

sdeign1590

disesteem1594

vilify1599

to set lightly, coldly1604

disrepute1611

to hold cheapa1616

avile1616

floccify1623

meprize1633

to think (also believe, etc.) meanly of1642

publican1648

naucify1653

disesteem1659

invalue1673

to set light, at light1718

sneeze1806

sniff1837

derry1896

to hold no brief for1918

c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 45 In whom [sc. God] who that trustith ys nat confowndid, and who that callith hym in-to hymself is not cotempnyd.

1491 Compend. Abstr. Holy Rule Saynte Benet sig. av^v in Bk. Diuerse Ghostly Maters (Caxton) Beringe in your mynde..how they þ^t contempnyth god & hys preceptes or the rule shal goo to hell.

1516 Lyfe St. Birgette in Kalendre Newe Legende Eng. (Pynson) f. cxxi They that do contempne me and forgette my charyte they do this to me.

1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. Ep. Ded. sig. *ij^v Yea all men so allowed labours, and contemned idlenes, that immediatly all the worlde flowed with liberall artes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. iv. 127 I haue done pennance for contemning Loue.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. vi. 24 Those things which we neither Desire, nor Hate, we are said to Contemne.

1712 R. Blackmore Creation vii. 352 How much the Judge, who does in Heav'n preside, Remocks the Scoffer, and contemns his Pride!

1781 R. B. Sheridan Trip to Scarborough ii. i. 39 I did not start at his addresses, as when they came from one whom I contemned.

1827 A. Sutherland Tales of Pilgrim (ed. 2) 181 The scorn with which his playmates..had contemned him for the baseness of his birth.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iv. xxxiii. 326 It lay in Deronda's nature usually to contemn the feeble.

1922 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 12 180 They contemn the visual-auditory intellect in much the same way that many intellectuals contemn the kinaesthetic variety.

1987 F. X. Winters in J. W. Bernauer Amor Mundi 214 Machiavelli repudiated moral criteria in politics because morality contemns recognition while politics is defined as the search for glory.

2006 J. Carey What Good are Arts? vi. 193 In Austen's world some people..truly are contemptible, and it is right to contemn them.

b. transitive. With infinitive as object. To refuse (to do something regarded as unworthy of one's effort, consideration, etc.); to disdain or scorn (to do something). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > disdain to do something

disdainc1380

to tell scorn1477

contemn1510

to think (it) scornc1515

to take scorn1575

scorn1605

coya1616

1510 A. Chertsey tr. Floure Commaundementes of God (de Worde) ii. lxiii. f. cliii^v/2 He contempned to accomplysshe his promesse and vowe.

1553 J. Hooper Homelye to be read in Tyme of Pestylence sig. B.iiij Caius his neuewe contempned to honor the liuing god.

1609 Bible (Douay) I. Dan. xiv. 12 A stubbourne and froward sonne, that..contemneth to be obedient.

1622 G. Wither Faire-virtue sig. N4 Some..who do not contemne In his retyred walkes, to visit him.

1731 T. Hearne Vindic. 60 He hath contemned to obey as a Christian,..Separating himself from the Church.

1812 Crit. Rev. Jan. 3 Contemning to answer his objectors.

1845 tr. St. Gregory Morals on Bk. of Job II. iv. xx. 459 She [sc. the Holy Church]..contemns to number them among the true Fathers.

1938 China Forum 10 Sept. 293/1 What is the glory of a victory gained through means the whole world contemns to use?

2. transitive. To show contemptuous disregard for (an order, request, etc.); to be in contempt of (a law, court of law, etc.).In quot. 1609 intransitive: to show contemptuous disobedience.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > treat with contempt > laws or orders

contemn1457

society > authority > lack of subjection > refuse to submit to [verb (transitive)] > set aside authority > contemptuously

contemn1457

conculcate1570

1457 [implied in: 1457 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Brechinensis (1856) I. 183 In gret lychtleing and contempinge of justice and law. (at contemning n.)].

1484 Rolls of Parl.: Richard III (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1484 §1. m. 3 The ordre of all poletique rule was perverted, the lawes..broken, subverted and contempned.

1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 41^v His benefites if we forget, or do contemne his lawe.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Nov. 48 Let not my small demaund be so contempt.

1609 Bible (Douay) I. Bel & Dragon i. 12 And they contemned [L. contemnebant autem], because they had made vnder the table a secrete entrance [etc.].

c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 239 Mr. Cooper contemn'd my Lord's Order, and would not obey it.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. 262 Some rustic wretch, who liv'd in heav'n's despight, Contemning laws, and trampling on the right.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. ix. 689 They..contemned and violated the engagement of treaties.

1881 Christian Monthly & Family Treasury Jan. 11/2 The immediate cause of his imprisonment was..for contemning the authority of the judge of one of Her Majesty's courts.

1908 Amer. Law Rev. Sept. 700 Should not the Court which has been contemned, at least be assisted by a jury in the determination of the facts?

2013 Statesman (Pakistan) (Nexis) 13 Oct. The petition was filed in the high court on Saturday, citing the premier had contemned the judiciary.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	contemn
释义	contemnv. Brit. /kənˈtɛm/, U.S. /kənˈtɛm/ Forms: α. late Middle English cotempne, late Middle English–1500s contempne, 1500s–1700s contemne, 1600s– contemn. β. late Middle English contempe, 1500s contempt (past participle); Scottish pre-1700 ̀contempe, pre-1700 contemp. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French contemner; Latin contemnere. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French contempner, Middle French contemner (French (now rare) contemner ) to regard or treat (a person or thing) with contempt (c1350), to show contemptuous disregard for (an offer, order, request, etc.) (late 14th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin contempnere, contemnere to regard with contempt, to despise, to treat with contempt, to scorn, to disregard, to avoid < con- con- prefix + temnere to scorn, despise, of uncertain origin; perhaps < the same Indo-European base as ancient Greek τέμνειν to cut, Old Russian tjati to beat, Polish ciąć to cut, Lithuanian tinti to sharpen by hammering. Compare later contempt v. 1. a. transitive. To regard or treat (a person or thing) with contempt; to reject (a person or thing considered unworthy or undesirable); to scorn, disdain. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] forhowc900 overhowOE withhuheOE forhecchec1230 scorna1275 despise1297 spise13.. to set at a pease, at a pie's heel, at a pin's fee1303 to hold, have scorn at, ofc1320 to think scorn ofc1320 to set short by1377 to tell short of1377 to set naught or nought (nothing, not anything) by1390 spitea1400 contemnc1425 nought1440 overlooka1450 mainprizec1450 lightly1451 vilipendc1470 indeign1483 misprize1483 dain?1518 to look down on (also upon)1539 floccipend1548 contempta1555 to take scorn ata1566 embase1577 sdeign1590 disesteem1594 vilify1599 to set lightly, coldly1604 disrepute1611 to hold cheapa1616 avile1616 floccify1623 meprize1633 to think (also believe, etc.) meanly of1642 publican1648 naucify1653 disesteem1659 invalue1673 to set light, at light1718 sneeze1806 sniff1837 derry1896 to hold no brief for1918 c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 45 In whom [sc. God] who that trustith ys nat confowndid, and who that callith hym in-to hymself is not cotempnyd. 1491 Compend. Abstr. Holy Rule Saynte Benet sig. av^v in Bk. Diuerse Ghostly Maters (Caxton) Beringe in your mynde..how they þ^t contempnyth god & hys preceptes or the rule shal goo to hell. 1516 Lyfe St. Birgette in Kalendre Newe Legende Eng. (Pynson) f. cxxi They that do contempne me and forgette my charyte they do this to me. 1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. Ep. Ded. sig. ij^v Yea all men so allowed labours, and contemned idlenes, that immediatly all the worlde flowed with liberall artes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona* (1623) ii. iv. 127 I haue done pennance for contemning Loue. View more context for this quotation 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. vi. 24 Those things which we neither Desire, nor Hate, we are said to Contemne. 1712 R. Blackmore Creation vii. 352 How much the Judge, who does in Heav'n preside, Remocks the Scoffer, and contemns his Pride! 1781 R. B. Sheridan Trip to Scarborough ii. i. 39 I did not start at his addresses, as when they came from one whom I contemned. 1827 A. Sutherland Tales of Pilgrim (ed. 2) 181 The scorn with which his playmates..had contemned him for the baseness of his birth. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iv. xxxiii. 326 It lay in Deronda's nature usually to contemn the feeble. 1922 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 12 180 They contemn the visual-auditory intellect in much the same way that many intellectuals contemn the kinaesthetic variety. 1987 F. X. Winters in J. W. Bernauer Amor Mundi 214 Machiavelli repudiated moral criteria in politics because morality contemns recognition while politics is defined as the search for glory. 2006 J. Carey What Good are Arts? vi. 193 In Austen's world some people..truly are contemptible, and it is right to contemn them. b. transitive. With infinitive as object. To refuse (to do something regarded as unworthy of one's effort, consideration, etc.); to disdain or scorn (to do something). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > disdain to do something disdainc1380 to tell scorn1477 contemn1510 to think (it) scornc1515 to take scorn1575 scorn1605 coya1616 1510 A. Chertsey tr. Floure Commaundementes of God (de Worde) ii. lxiii. f. cliii^v/2 He contempned to accomplysshe his promesse and vowe. 1553 J. Hooper Homelye to be read in Tyme of Pestylence sig. B.iiij Caius his neuewe contempned to honor the liuing god. 1609 Bible (Douay) I. Dan. xiv. 12 A stubbourne and froward sonne, that..contemneth to be obedient. 1622 G. Wither Faire-virtue sig. N4 Some..who do not contemne In his retyred walkes, to visit him. 1731 T. Hearne Vindic. 60 He hath contemned to obey as a Christian,..Separating himself from the Church. 1812 Crit. Rev. Jan. 3 Contemning to answer his objectors. 1845 tr. St. Gregory Morals on Bk. of Job II. iv. xx. 459 She [sc. the Holy Church]..contemns to number them among the true Fathers. 1938 China Forum 10 Sept. 293/1 What is the glory of a victory gained through means the whole world contemns to use? 2. transitive. To show contemptuous disregard for (an order, request, etc.); to be in contempt of (a law, court of law, etc.).In quot. 1609 intransitive: to show contemptuous disobedience. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > treat with contempt > laws or orders contemn1457 society > authority > lack of subjection > refuse to submit to [verb (transitive)] > set aside authority > contemptuously contemn1457 conculcate1570 1457 [implied in: 1457 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Brechinensis (1856) I. 183 In gret lychtleing and contempinge of justice and law. (at contemning n.)]. 1484 Rolls of Parl.: Richard III (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1484 §1. m. 3 The ordre of all poletique rule was perverted, the lawes..broken, subverted and contempned. 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 41^v His benefites if we forget, or do contemne his lawe. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Nov. 48 Let not my small demaund be so contempt. 1609 Bible (Douay) I. Bel & Dragon i. 12 And they contemned [L. contemnebant autem], because they had made vnder the table a secrete entrance [etc.]. c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 239 Mr. Cooper contemn'd my Lord's Order, and would not obey it. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. 262 Some rustic wretch, who liv'd in heav'n's despight, Contemning laws, and trampling on the right. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. ix. 689 They..contemned and violated the engagement of treaties. 1881 Christian Monthly & Family Treasury Jan. 11/2 The immediate cause of his imprisonment was..for contemning the authority of the judge of one of Her Majesty's courts. 1908 Amer. Law Rev. Sept. 700 Should not the Court which has been contemned, at least be assisted by a jury in the determination of the facts? 2013 Statesman (Pakistan) (Nexis) 13 Oct. The petition was filed in the high court on Saturday, citing the premier had contemned the judiciary. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.c1425
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