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.
| 单词 | contemn | 
| 释义 | contemnv.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.  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. avv in  Bk. Diuerse Ghostly Maters 		(Caxton)	  				Beringe in your mynde..how they þt 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. *ijv  				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. cliiiv/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. 41v  				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). <  | 
	
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